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{{Short description|British Royal Navy admiral (1767–1849)}}
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|birth_date=25 May 1767
|death_date=14 September 1849 (aged 82)
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[[Admiral]] '''Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet''' [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] (25 May 1767 – 14 September 1849), was a British naval officer and [[governors of Newfoundland and Labrador|commodore-governor]] of [[Colony of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]].
 
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==Naval career==
 
Hamilton was born the eldest son of John Hamilton, a Captain in the Royal Navy who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Quebec in 1775. Charles began his naval career at the age of nine on his father's ship, ''Hector''. He attended the [[Royal Naval Academy]] at [[Portsmouth]] from 1777 to 1779.<ref name=nbd>O'Byrne</ref>▼
==Life==
▲Hamilton was born the eldest son of [[Sir John Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Marlborough House|John Hamilton]], a Captaincaptain in the Royal Navy who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Quebec in 1775. Charles began his naval career at the age of nine on his father's ship, ''Hector''. He attended the [[Royal Naval Academy]] at [[Portsmouth]] from 1777 to 1779.<ref name=nbd>O'Byrne</ref>
 
He commanded a number of vessels in the [[Royal Navy]] and was also a member of the [[British parliament]] several times between 1790 and 1812 while still serving in the [[Royal Navy]]. He became the 2nd baronet Hamililton of Trebinshun on his father's death in 1784.<ref name=nbd/>
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Hamilton was promoted to [[admiral]] on 22 July 1830, and was awarded [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath|KCB]] in 1833.<ref name=nbd/>
 
He died at the family home at Iping, [[West Sussex]] in 1849. He had married Henrietta Martha, the daughter of George Drummond, a banker of Stanmore, Middlesex. Their only son, Sir Charles John James Hamilton, 3rd Baronet, also became an Army officer. [[Henrietta Hamilton|Lady Hamilton]] painted a well-known portrait of [[DemasduwitDemasduit]], also called Mary March, a [[Beothuk]] woman captured in 1818.<ref name=dcb/>
 
==Legacy==
Hamilton is the namesake of [[Hamilton Inlet]] and, formerly, of the Hamilton River (now the [[Churchill River (Atlantic)|Churchill River]]), both in Labrador.
 
==See also==
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==Sources==
* {{cite wikisource | class = dictionary | first = William Richard | last = O'Byrne | chapter = Hamilton, Charles | wslink = A Naval Biographical Dictionary | title = A Naval Biographical Dictionary | year = 1849 | publisher = [[John Murray (publisherpublishing house)|John Murray]] }}
 
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