Everything about William Richard Hamilton totally explained
William Richard Hamilton (
1777-
1859) was a British
antiquarian and traveller. He was son of Rev. Anthony Hamilton, Archdeacon of
Colchester and Anne, daughter of Richard Terrick,
Bishop of London.
In
1799 he was appointed chief private secretary to
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. He was in
Egypt as the English took it over from the French, and secured the
Rosetta Stone. After a voyage up the
Nile, he wrote a well-known work of Egyptology.
From
1809 to
1822 Hamilton served as
Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and from 1822 to
1825 he was Minister and Envoy Plenipotentiary at the
Kingdom of Naples.
In
1830 he succeeded
Sir Thomas Lawrence as Secretary of the
Society of Dilettanti, a post which he held until his death in 1859.
The geologist
William John Hamilton was his son.
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