Thomas Hamilton (university administrator)
- Thomas Hamilton (university administrator)
Thomas Hamilton PC (Ire) (28 August 1842–18 May 1925) was a Northern Ireland clergyman who served as president of Queen's College, Belfast and subsequently president and vice-chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast after its creation in 1908.
A native of Belfast, Hamilton was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen's College, Belfast and Queen's University of Ireland. He became president of Queens College, Belfast in 1889 and, after nineteen years in that position, was honoured with appointment as vice-chancellor of the expanded institution's newly-created status as Queen's University, which he served for another fifteen years, until 1923. He was also the author of a number of historical and ecclesiastical studies, including the 1886 "History of the Irish Presbyterian Church" and wrote myriad entries for the "Dictionary of National Biography". As a prominent unionist, he was appointed, at the age of 78, to the Privy Council of Ireland in the 1921 New Year Honours, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable".
Thomas Hamilton married Frances Allen in 1876 and was the father of a son and two daughters. He died in Belfast at the age of 82.
References
*"Who Was Who", vol II, 1916−1928 (third edition, 1962). London: Adam & Charles Black.
External links
* [http://www.ulsterbiography.co.uk/biogsH.htm Thomas Hamilton entry in the "Dictionary of Ulster Biography" (the year of death is indicated as 1926)]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FKX/is_2002_Fall-Winter/ai_95598125/pg_23 McMahon, Timothy G. "'All creeda and all classes'? Just who made up the Gaelic League?", "Journal of Irish Studies", Fall-Winter, 2002]
* [http://www.rascal.ac.uk/collection/?ff=no&CollectionID=741&ff=no Description of the institutional archive of Queen's College Belfast which includes collections of papers and memorabilia of the Rev. Thomas Hamilton (1842−1925)]
* [http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/GeneralServices/News/ArchivesPressReleases-CampusNews/2004PressReleases/01-2004PressReleases/ "Gregson joins distinguished list of academics − a history of Queen's Vice-Chancellors" (January 2004 Queen's University Belfast press release)]
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