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See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
HAMILTON, See also:ROBERT (1743-1829) , Scottish economist and mathematician, was See also:born at Pilrig, See also:Edinburgh, on the 11th of See also:June 1743. His grandfather, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Hamilton, See also:principal of Edinburgh University, had been a See also:professor of divinity. Having completed his See also:education at the university of Edinburgh, where he was distinguished in See also:mathematics, Robert was induced to enter a banking-See also:house in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to acquire a See also:practical knowledge of business, but his ambition was really See also:academic. In 1769 he gave up business pursuits and accepted the rectorship of See also:Perth See also:academy. In 1779 he was presented to the See also:chair of natural See also:philosophy at See also:Aberdeen University. For many years, however, by private arrangement with his colleague Professor See also:Copland, Hamilton taught the class of mathematics. In 1817 he was presented to the latter chair.
Hamilton's most important See also:work is the See also:Essay on the See also:National See also:Debt, which appeared in 1813 and was undoubtedly the first to expose the economic fallacies involved in See also:Pitt's policy of a sinking fund. It is still of value. A See also:posthumous See also:volume published in 183o, The Progress of Society, is also of See also:great ability, and is a very effective treatment of economical principles by tracing their natural origin and position in the development of social See also:life. Some See also:minor See also:works of a practical See also:character (Introduction to Merchandise, 1777 ; Essay on See also:War and See also:Peace, 1790) are now forgotten.
End of Article: HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
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