Background
He was born in 1808, educated at Eton College, tutored by Thomas Arnold, and then attended Christ Church College, University of Oxford, where he took a first class degree in Greats.
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Walter Hamilton
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Christ Church; Eton College.
Career
He was elected to a Fellowship at Merton College in 1832. He was made deacon in 1833 and ordained priest in December of the same year. He was a curate at Wolvercote and at the parish of South. Peter-in-the-East in Oxford.
He became vicar of that parish in 1837 where he remained until 1841.
He subsequently became a canon-resident of Salisbury and then bishop of said Diocese in 1854. His private papers are currently in the possession of the Archives of Pusey House, Oxford.
