Hamilton, Patrick, the first Scotch reformer, nephe-^v to James, earl of Arran, was born in 1503, and was educated at St. Andrew's, after -which he went to Germany, M-here he imbibed the opinions of Luther, and became professor at Marburg. On his return home lie was made abbot of Feme, in the shire of Koss, where he pro- mulgated the doctrines of the Reformation with so much zeal as to excite the wrath of tlic clerg}', who caused him to be apprehended and sent to Beaton, archbishop
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of St. Andrew's. After a long examination he was biirnt at ihc stake, ojjposite St. Salvador's Colle^'C, Mar. 1, lo27, in liis 24th vear. At the place of execution he gave Jiis servant his garments, saying, "These arc the last things you can receive of me, nor have I anything now to leave you hut the cxamiilc of my death, which I pray vou to b^ar in mind ; for though it be bitter to the tlcsh, and fearful before men, yet it is the entrance into eter- nal life, which none shaU inlierit who deny Jesus Christ Ijefore this wicked generation." Tbe fire burning Slow- Iv, his sufferings were long and dreadful, but his patience and pietv were only more fully displayed thereby, in- sonnich that many were led to inquire into his princi- ples, and to alyurc the errors of popery. "The smoke of Mr. Patrick Hamilton," said a papist, " infected as many as it blew upon." His writings called Patrick's J'liices may Ije foimd in Richmond's Fathers of the Fjvj- Ihh Church, i, 475. Sec Pobertson, History of Scotland, bk. ii ; Fox, Rook of Martyrs, bk. viii ; Bumet, History of the lie formation,'], 4:90 sq.; Hetherington, History of the Church of Scolhni'l. i. oil sq.
Hamilton, Richard "Winter, D.D., an English Independent minister, was burn in London July G, 1794, and died in 1848. His mother had been a member of one of John Wesley's societies, and is mentioned (as 3Iis.s Hesketh) in Wesley's JouniaL At sixteen he en- tered the theological college at Hoxton, and even while he was a student his talent for preaching and the re- markable exuberance of his style attracted great atten- tion. Soon after leaving the college (1812 or 1813) he was called to the charge of an Independent congrega- tion at Leeds, and he held this position during the re- mainder of his life. He attained great eminence as a ])reacher, and still greater as a platform speaker. AVith great excellences he combined grave defects: he was deficient in taste, and his style was often exti-avagant and pom;)ou.> ; but there was a wide sweep in his thoughts, and he was sometimes eloquent even to sub- limity. During his life he was a diligoit student. He wa.s president of the Literary and Pliilosophical Society of Leeds, and contributed for it many valuable papers, pome of wliich were published in his A'lif/m JAterarice (l«11,sni.8vo). His other writings are. The little Sanc- tuary (domestic prayers and offices; Lond. 1838, 8vo) : Sermons, first series (18.17, 8vo; republished by Carlton and Lanahan, N. York, 1809); second scries, 1840, 8vo: —The Institutions of popular Education (2(1 ed. 1840, jiost Svo) -.— The revealed Doctrine of Rewards and I'un- ishnvnts (Lond. 1847, 8vo; N. Y., Carlton and Lanahan, f.Mi.M-.'rn..) -.-Huriv el Viudiriw Sidilxillca- (1848, 12mo) : Ml. I'll,.'', their Authnri/y. Saipr, an, I Kncourayement, a prize essay, sei'ond after Harris's Mammon (2d ed. 1840, jiost Hvo) :— Pastoral Appeals oh Personal, Domestic. and Social Deration (2d ed. 1848; also Carlton and Lan- ahan, N. York, 1809, 12mo) ; besides occasional sennoiis, etc. There is a poor biography of him liy Stowcll (I«j0.8vo). (J.IJ.L.)
Hamilton, Samuel, a Methodist Ejiiscopal min- i.stcr, was born in :\ronongahela Co., Va., Dec. 17, 1791, ami removed to (Jbio in IHOO; was converted in 1812; entered the Ohio Conference in 1815; and died May 4^ IS.'^X He was a pioneer of Western Methodism, mid a widely known and excellent minister. As a preacher, previiiing dder, and delegate to General Conference, he was in all respects "a workman that needed not to be ashamed." He was "shrewd, sarcastic, and eloquent," and his labors were abundanllv successful among all da.sse.'. of society.— .1/w. of Cou'fercnces, v, 208; Wake- ley, //eroes of Methodism, p. 337, (G. L. T.)
Hamilton, Sir William, a recent Scotch philos- <>I)lier. who will |)r..bably be regarded as (he most subtle lo.i;i(iaii aiKl tlie must a.uto mclaphv.sjeian ])roduccd in IJrit.im since Duns Scotus and WiUiain (.r( Kkham. (He miist not be confounded with his scarcelv less distiii- guishcd contemporary. Sir William I.'owan ' Hamilton, the Irish mathematician.) He is iticluded, and included
himself, among the adherents of the Scotch school of psychology,, but he is not of them, having remodelled, interpretcil, expanded, and transmuted their doctrines in such a manner as to elevate their character and en- tirely change their nature. His potent influence is man- ifested in nearly all the current speculation of the Brit- ish Isles. After having created by the labors of his life and by the fascination of his example a new class of in- quirers, his mind stiU dominates over those who reject, as well as over those who accept his principles.
Jjfe, Sir William Hamilton was born at Glasgow
March 8, 1780, eight years before the decease of Eeid ; he tlied at Edinburgh on May G, 185G. He thus lived through the whole of the revolution which convulsed the governments, societies, industries, and opinions of modern Europe, and prepared the new earth which is yet to be revealed. He was the son of Dr. William Hamilton, professor of anatomy at Glasgow; but he came of a long-descended line. He claimed a hereditary bar- onetcy, and deduced his lineage from the ducal and al- most royal house of Hamilton and Chastelherault. The illustration of his birth was obscured by the splendor of his intellectual career. He received his early education in his native city. From the University of Glasgow he passed to Baliol College, Oxford, and distinguished himself by his attainments in both classics and mathe- matics. Here he gained his acquaintance with the writings of Aristotle, which have never been disregard- ed in this ancient seat of learning. In the competition for graduating honors, he professed his readiness to be examined on most of the recognised Greek and Latin classics, including many of the works of Plato and Aris- totle, and of the writings of the Neo-Platonists and the peripatetic scholiasts. He had, moreover, already ob- tained some knowledge of Averroes and Avicenna; of the Latin fathers and the great schoolmen ; of Cardan, Agricola, Laurentius Valla, and the Scaligers ; and had formed a less questionable intimacy with Des Cartes, Leibnitz, and other luminaries of the Cartesian school.