Robert George Crookshank Hamilton

Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton was born in Bressay, Shetland, Scotland, the son of Rev. Zachary Macaulay Hamilton. He attended King's College in Aberdeen, and in 1857 he received a Master's Degree, followed by a Doctor of Laws in 1885. In 1863 he married Caroline Jane Ball and had four children. Hamilton enlisted and served in the Crimean War as a commissariat clerk. After the war, he became a bureaucrat. In 1868 he published Book-Keeping. In 1869 he was an …