Education
Hamilton studied law and language at Caius College, Cambridge before attracting attention as an oarsman with Thames Rowing Club.
Hamilton studied law and language at Caius College, Cambridge before attracting attention as an oarsman with Thames Rowing Club.
He founded the publishing house Hamish Hamilton Limited. Hamilton was an employee of the book department at Harrod"s before founding his own publishing house Hamish Hamilton in the 1930s. Jamie Hamilton sold the firm to the Thomson Organisation in 1965, who resold it to Penguin Books in 1986,
(Hamish is the Celtic form, James the English form - which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form).
Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton.