CHAPTER XVI

 

THE REV. RICHARD HAMILTON AND HIS DESCENDANTS

 

       The Rev. Richard Hamilton was the 5th son of Capt. John Hamilton (Chap XIII). He was born in Guernsey[1], and entered Trinity Coll. Dublin 15 Oct 1821, aged 16; obtained a Scholarship in 1825; Hebrew Prizes in 1826; B.A. in Holy Orders; Vicar of Kilmersdon, Somersetshire; died at Clifton 6 Jul 1859.  He m. Charlotte (ob. 1882), the 5th da. of William Cooper, of Cooper's Hill, Queens Co. –(see Burke's L.G.), and had two daughters.

 

The elder, Elizabeth Dorothea (ob. 17 Aug 1906), m. Wrigley Grimshaw, Esq., of Dublin (ob. 1878), and had two sons:–

(1)  Walter Alfred Hamilton Grimshaw, b. 11 Aug 1876; served in the 4th Batt. Connaught Rangers; 2nd Lieut. 15 Nov 1899; Lieut. 25 April 1900; Capt. 9 Nov 1901; Major 18 Jun 1913. War services:- South Africa 1902, attached to 4th Batt. Yorkshire Regt.  (19th Foot); Medal and clasps. Embri Expedn. 1906, attached to the King's African Rifles; African General service Medal and clasps.  Kisi Expedition 1908, commanded Column.  The Great War 1914 to 1919. Served with the 4th Connaught Rangers at home, and took part in the Irish Rebellion 1916. Served as second in command with 6th Connaught Rangers in March 1916 and 1917.  Present at the Battle of Messines. Commanded Batt. in raids on the 8th and 9th March 1917, when they retook trenches lost by the Royal Irish Rifles.  Commanded 3rd East Surrey Regt. 1918 at Dover. Served in Palestine 1918, and in Salonika 1918 and 1919, m. Madeline Maud, only da. of William Frazer, Esq., of Hillmount, Cullybackey, Co. Antrim, and has one da. Dorothea Margaret Grimshaw.

(2)  Edmund Ussher Grimshaw the younger son of Wrigley Grimshaw and Elizabeth Dorothea his wife was b. 3rd Mar 1878; he served in the Royal Engineers before the Great War and resigned. Rejoined the R.E. in 1914 as Capt.  Served at Gallipoli and was wounded.  Served in Egypt and Mesopotamia and India. Promoted Major in 1918.  Served in Baku 1919.  D.S.O., 1920.  He m. Adeline Susan Lippincott, younger da. of the Rev. Frederick Durbin, Vicar of Harston, Cambs.

 

       Catherine Jane Hamilton, the younger da. of the Rev. Richard Hamilton, is the author of various works. She published at 25 her first story "Hedged with Thorns," and is also author of "Marriage Bonds" (1878); "The Flynns of Flynnsville" (1879);  "True to the core" (1884); "Dr Belton's Daughters" (1890); "Women Writers; Their Works and Ways" (1892); "Notable Irishwomen" (1904); "The Luck of the Kavanaghs" (1910); and other works, besides many contributions to weekly and monthly magazines and papers.  A series of papers entitled "Recollections of Our Village," which appeared in the "Treasury" magazine in 1918-1919, are largely autobiographical.

 

Chapter XVII

 

CONTENTS

 

 

 


[1]  The 5th Regt was in 1804 stationed at Amherst Barracks in Guernsey under Colonel Cockell. See "Memoirs of a Serjeant of the 5th Regiment of Foot" Stephen Morley.