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Thomas Ferrier Hamilton (31 March 1820 – 7 August 1905) was an Australian politician, pastoralist, and sportsman. A grandson of the 2nd Viscount Gort, he was born in Linlithgowshire, Scotland, but emigrated to Australia in 1839. With his cousin, John Carre Riddell, Hamilton owned a pastoral lease near Gisborne, Victoria. A local magistrate and justice of the peace, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1872, sitting as a member for the Southern Province until 1884. He also sat on the Gisborne Road Board, including as chairman for a time. A member (and twice president) of the Melbourne Cricket Club, Hamilton was a keen cricketer, and played several matches for Victorian representative teams, including the inaugural match in Australia. ==Family and early life== Hamilton was born at Cathlaw House, in Torphichen, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, on 31 March 1820. His father was Col. John Ferrier Hamilton, of the 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, and his mother was The Hon. Georgina Prendergast Vereker, the third daughter of Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort.〔 〕 The couple's first son was Major Walter Ferrier Hamilton, who inherited his father's properties and was the member for the Linlithgowshire constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1859 to 1865.〔(Major Walter Hamilton ) – Hansard 1803–2005. Retrieved 27 March 2014.〕 Educated at the Edinburgh Academy, Hamilton emigrated to Australia after turning 18, with his cousin, John Carre Riddell. The pair arrived at Port Jackson aboard the ''Abberton'', on 23 August 1839, and, after two weeks in Sydney, began the three-week overland trip to the Port Phillip District (present-day Victoria). Upon arrival in the district, Hamilton and Riddell were initially in partnership with Niel Black, purchasing and stocking ''Strathdownie'', in the Western District. In May 1840, they then purchased the late Henry Howey's station near Mount Macedon, with the pair's ownership of what they named ''Cairn Hill'' (after a family property in Scotland, ''Cairnhill'') lasting until 1861.〔Joan Campbell (1974). (Review of "Pastoral Pioneers of Port Phillip", by R. V. Billis and A. S. Kenyon (2nd ed.) ) – ''Historical Studies'', vol. 16 (63), pp. 326–327. Retrieved 27 March 2014.〕 Records show that the run, between Mount Macedon and Gisborne, comprised approximately 25,000 acres, and, in 1853, included 7,000 sheep (and 12 horses). ''Turitable'', another property owned by the pair in the Western District, comprised around 12,000 acres, with 1,500 sheep and 300 cattle.〔(Occupants of crown lands ) – Parliament of Victoria. Parliamentary paper 1853–54, no. C 4, p. 25. Retrieved 27 March 2014.〕〔(Crown land licenses ) – Parliament of Victoria. Parliamentary paper 1855–56, no. C 36, p. 7. Retrieved 27 March 2014.〕 Hamilton and Riddell's partnership was dissolved in 1861, with Hamilton subsequently acquiring ''Elderslie'', a 1,536-acre property near New Gisborne.〔 In 1851, Hamilton had married Elizabeth Mary Milner Stephen,〔 whose father, Sidney Stephen, and grandfather, John Stephen, were both judges descended from James Stephen, the notable abolitionist.〔C. H. Currey (1967). (Stephen, John (1771–1833) ) – Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 26 March 2014.〕 The couple had eleven children, including Blanche Muriel Eugénie (later Ross-Watt), a charity worker and, like her father, a president of the Shire of Gisborne, possibly the first woman to head a local government body in Victoria.〔N. R. G. Robertson (2002). (Ross-Watt, Blanche Muriel Eugénie (1861–1956) ) – Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 26 March 2014.〕 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「Thomas Ferrier Hamilton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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