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Rt. Rev. Hugh Hamilton DD, FRS (26 March 1729 – 1 December 1805) was a mathematician, natural philosopher (scientist) and professor at Trinity College, Dublin, and later a Church of Ireland bishop at Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, and then at Ossory. ==Life== He was born at Knock, near Balrothery in County Dublin (now Fingal), on 26 March 1729, the eldest son of Alexander (died 1768) and Isabella Hamilton.〔 His father was a solicitor and politician who represented the Killyleagh constituency in the Irish House of Commons from 1739 to 1759.〔 Alexander's great-grandfather Hugh Hamilton migrated from Scotland to County Down in the early 17th century. The Scottish architect Sir James Hamilton of Finnart was an ancestor.〔 Isabella Hamilton was born Isabella Maxwell, the daughter of the Rev. Robert Maxwell of Finnebrogue, Downpatrick. Hamilton entered Trinity College, Dublin on 17 November 1742 at the age of 13 with Thomas McDonnell as tutor. He graduated BA in 1747 and MA in 1750. He was elected a fellow of the college at the age of 22 in 1751, having been unsuccessful at the examination the previous year. He was appointed Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural Philosophy at Trinity College in 1759 and that same year graduated Bachelor of Divinity. Around this time he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1761) and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He graduated Doctor of Divinity in 1762. He retired on a college living in 1764〔 and was presented by Trinity College to the rectory of Kilmacrenan in the diocese of Raphoe, County Donegal, resigning from there in 1767 and becoming vicar of St. Anne's in Dublin. He then became Dean of Armagh from April 1768 to 1796. Gilbert Stuart painted his portrait in about 1790.〔("Hugh Hamilton, Dean of Armagh, (painting)" ). ''Art Inventories Catalog''. Smithsonian American Art Museum.〕 He was promoted to Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 20 January 1796, without seeking it.〔 On 24 January 1799 he was translated to Ossory,〔''Handbook of British Chronology'' By Fryde, E. B; Greenway, D.E; Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 9780521563505〕 where he was bishop until 1805.〔http://www.thesilverbowl.com/documents/1801Aug17_OLIVER-HAMILTON.html#_ftn2〕 He died at Kilkenny on 1 December 1805〔(Hugh Hamilton, Bishop of Ossory ). Library Ireland.〕 and was buried in St Canice's Cathedral, where there is a monument to him.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh Hamilton (bishop)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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