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{{Short description|British Royal Navy admiral (1767–1849)}}
[[File:Admiral Sir Charles Hamilton (1767-1849), by William Beechey.jpg|thumb|Admiral Sir Charles Hamilton (1767-1849) ([[William Beechey]])]]▼
'''Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet''' (25 May 1767 – 14 September 1849) was a British naval officer and governor of [[Colony of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]].▼
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|name=Charles Hamilton
|honorific_suffix=[[Order of the Bath|KCB]] [[Baronet|Bt]]
|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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Hamilton was born the eldest son of [[Sir John Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Marlborough House|John Hamilton]], a
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/>
From 1818 to 1823 he served as resident [[Governor of Newfoundland|governor for the colony of Newfoundland]]
Hamilton was
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 [[
==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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== External links ==
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