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James Hamish Hamilton (15 November 1900 – 24 May 1988) was a half-American half-Scot rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He founded the publishing house Hamish Hamilton Limited. Hamilton studied law and language at Caius College, Cambridge before attracting attention as an oarsman with Thames Rowing Club. He was a member of the Thames eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1927. The Thames eight including Hamilton, won the Grand Challenge Cup again in 1928 and was chosen to represent Great Britain rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics where they won a silver medal.〔( Sports Reference Olympic Sports - James Hamilton )〕 He married Jean Forbes-Robertson in 1929,〔("London Actress to Wed" ), ''The Montreal Gazette'', 19 July 1929, p. 10, accessed 17 December 2012〕 but the marriage ended in 1933. Hamilton was an employee of the book department at Harrod's before founding his own publishing house ''Hamish Hamilton'' in the 1930s. He went on to publish a large number of promising British and American authors, many of whom were personal friends and acquaintances of ''Jamie Hamilton''. Jamie Hamilton sold the firm to the Thomson Organisation in 1965, who resold it to Penguin Books in 1986,〔(A biography of Jamie Hamilton and a history of Hamish Hamilton ) at the official Hamish Hamilton site〕 (''Hamish'' is the Celtic form, ''James'' the English form - which was also his given name, and ''Jamie'' the diminutive form). Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as ''Hamish Hamilton''. ==References== *(Hamish Hamilton Collection ) held at the University of Bristol Library Special Collections 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「Jamie Hamilton (publisher)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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