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- Both Hamilton and his father took one of their Christian names from the most important of his father’s clients, the famous Irish patriot Archibald Hamilton Rowan.
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This escape appeared in 1794, and Rowan fled to France. William Edwin’s version cannot have been literally true; Archibald was only sixteen then. But Rowan lived in Dominick street, the same street where in 1805 Hamilton would be born, perhaps accounting for William Edwin’s erroneous remark.
William Rowan Hamilton's father, Archibald Hamilton, did not have time to teach William as he was often away in England pursuing legal business. Archibald Hamilton had not had a university education and it is thought that Hamilton's genius came from his mother, Sarah Hutton.
Hamilton was the fourth of nine children born to Sarah Hutton (1780–1817) and Archibald Hamilton (1778–1819), who lived in Dublin at 29 Dominick Street, later renumbered to 36. Hamilton's father, who was from Dublin, worked as a solicitor.
Archibald Hamilton had been named after Archibald Rowan; his son was christened William Rowan, and Archibald Rowan was the boy's godfather. Rowan's involvement with the United Irishmen brought him into conflict with the law, and ultimately to prison. He escaped, but was forced to live for many years in exile.
Both his parents were Dubliners: his father, Archibald, the son of an apothecary, had served his apprenticeship in an attorney's office and now conducted his own modest legal practice.
Sep 7, 2015 · Unlike his dear friends Wolfe Tone, Edward FitzGerald, Thomas Russell and Oliver Bond, Archibald Hamilton Rowan did not perish in 1798 but continued the fight for democracy and human rights ...
HAMILTON, Sir WILLIAM ROWAN (1805–1865), mathematician, born in Dublin at midnight, between 3 and 4 Aug. 1805, was the fourth child of Archibald Hamilton, a solicitor there, and his wife Sarah Hutton, a relative of Dr. Hutton the mathematician. Archibald Hamilton was Scottish by birth, and went to Dublin when a boy with his father, William ...
