About Frederick Hamilton
Lived 1856 – 1917 (aged 61). Frederick Hamilton was a British naval officer.
Admiral Sir Frederick Tower Hamilton, (8 March 1856 – 4 October 1917) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.
Naval career Hamilton joined the Royal Navy in 1869 as a cadet on the training ship Britannia. promoted to captain on 1 January 1898, and re-appointed in command of the Defiance the same day. On 18 March 1902 he was appointed flag captain of the battleship HMS Bulwark, which in May was to become flagship of Admiral Sir Compton Domvile, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. Hamilton was Aide-de-Camp to the King between 1906 and 1907.
At the outset of the First World War Hamilton was Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel and was promoted to full admiral in June 1916. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth later that year but died suddenly from a heart attack in 1917 and is buried in Rosyth Old Churchyard.
He lived at Anmer Hall near King's Lynn in Norfolk. 30em
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Who was Frederick Hamilton?
Royal Navy admiral (1856-1917)
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Frederick Hamilton was born on 8 March 1856 in London.
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Frederick Hamilton died on 4 October 1917 in Rosyth.
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Frederick Hamilton was a naval officer.
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Frederick Hamilton was British.
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