James Hamilton

James Hamilton FLS (27 November 1814 – 24 November 1867) was a Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts.

Life Born in Paisley, Scotland, seven miles west-southwest of Glasgow, Hamilton was the eldest son of William Hamilton, a Church of Scotland minister of Strathblane and religious author of local renown. James Hamilton was therefore destined from an early age to enter the ministry,

Family

In 1847 he married Anne Hovenden Moore (d.1886) daughter of John Moore of Calcutta. Their children included:

Anne Hamilton (1849-1910) married Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet. James Hamilton (1850-1911) Mary Isabella Hamilton (1853-1887) married Alexander Lawrence Christina Jean Hamilton (1856-1885) Herbert William Hamilton (b.1861) Ada Frances Hamilton (1864-1902)