Talk:Douglas Hamilton

Promotions etc
I'm beginning to wonder if there were two Douglas Hamilton's active in India at about the same time as the promotion dates I can find in the London Gazette don't always match with what's currently in the article. Prior to 1857 he wouldn't have held a Queen's commission, so I woudn't expect to find him there. Post Crown rule in the wake of the Mutiny I find:


 * Major, 29 June 1858
 * Lieutenant colonel, 1 January 1862
 * Brevet colonel, 1 January 1867
 * Substantive colonel, 1 January 1874
 * Major general, 1 Ocotber 1877
 * (Major general, transferred to unemployed supernumerary list), 1 July 1881
 * Lieutenant general, 10 March 1882

David Underdown (talk)


 * I checked a number of Army Lists across the relevant years yesterday. The dates I found agree with the ones in the Gazette above, so I think we ought to correct them.  David Underdown (talk) 14:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * David, Thanks for checking the Lists. I've incorporated the Gazettes's dates into the article. Please check to see that I transcribed correctly. Conflicting dates still are unexplained. Autobiography dates are from Quarterly Indian Army List of 1891. (see:Hamilton, p. xxxix) Did/can you check that one?--Marcus (talk) 06:17, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Brother Richard's rank is incorrect. He also attained the rank of General. His daughter, Helen Sarah Hamilton, married Sir Bruce Maxwell Seton, 8th Baronet of Abercorn. http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/edward-walford/the-county-families-of-the-united-kingdom-or-royal-manual-of-the-titled-and-un-fla/page-323-the-county-families-of-the-united-kingdom-or-royal-manual-of-the-titled-and-un-fla.shtml Nothinheavy (talk) 03:51, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Visit to Australia
King George Sound seems more likely than St George's Sound.--Grahame (talk) 12:04, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

He would have gone to Adelaide to visit his brother George. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hamilton-george-12961/text23427 Nothinheavy (talk) 03:43, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

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