George Hamilton (born August 12, 1939) is an American film and television actor and occasional film director. He is noted for his perpetual, chestnut-colored suntan and his colorful boulevardier lifestyle.
George Hamilton is a sports commentator born in Belfast.
He works for Radio Telefís Éireann, the Republic of Ireland radio and television broadcasting company and is a household name in Ireland where his voice and refined commentary style of football are familiar to sports fans.
Hamilton originally trained as a cellist and pianist before beginning work for the BBC, and subsequently RTÉ. As well as commentary work, Hamilton works for Lyric FM (Ireland's classical radio station) on Saturday mornings. For many years he also fronted a popular weekly quiz show on RTÉ, Know Your Sport, alongside fellow commentator Jimmy Magee. Hamilton's cultured approach to sports commentary has won him admirers, and although his remarks are sometimes scoffed at, he has been a leading voice in Irish sport for almost thirty years.
George Hamilton (April 13, 1781 - January 7, 1839) was a lumber baron and public official in Upper Canada.
Hamilton was born in Hamwood in County Meath, Republic of Ireland in 1781 and came to Quebec City sometime before 1807. He and his brother, William, were merchants importing Madeira wine and selling other goods. In 1809, they set themselves up in the timber trade in Lower Canada, exporting lumber and supplying shipbuilders. As a result of a timber operator being unable to honour his contract, they became owners of a mill at Hawkesbury, Ontario associated with lumbering along the Rideau River. During the War of 1812, George served in the Quebec militia reaching the rank of major. When his brother retired, he moved to Hawkesbury to look after the mill. In 1816, Hamilton became a Justice of the Peace and judge in the new Ottawa District Court of Upper Canada. During the 1820s, a downturn in the timber trade resulted in hard times for the Hamilton family and the business teetered on the edge of bankruptcy.
In 1830, Hamilton formed a partnership with Charles Adamson Low. The mill at Hawkesbury grew to become one of the top producers in the country. Although Hamilton had resorted to illegal cutting on crown lands when establishing his business, he now began to lobby the government to introduce a system of licenses to control timber cutting on crown land. A fee-based system was introduced and, at Bytown, a down payment was collected against future cutting fees which favoured the wealthier operators and discouraged speculation.
In the valley of the Gatineau River, Hamilton helped establish the so-called Gatineau Privilege, established by an order-in-council in November 1832 which limited the number of operators in the region. Despite protests, it remained in effect until 1843. Hamilton and Low had a similar arrangement in the valley of the Rouge River.
He died of a severe cold at Hawkesbury in 1839.
George Hamilton merchant, politician; born October 1788 (1787 Dictionary of Hamilton Biography) in Queenston Heights. He founded the city of Hamilton, Ontario. He married Maria Lavinia Jarvis in 1811. He died on February 20 1836 in Hamilton, and was buried in his family plot and later re-interred in Hamilton Cemetery.
The son of wealthy and influential Queenston merchant Robert Hamilton, who later held important government offices, being a member of the Legislative Council and lieutenant of the County of Lincoln, and son of Mary McLean (nee Herkimer), Hamilton was educated in Edinburgh, Scotland and appears to have possessed a keen mind for business and letters. The Scottish schooling of the era wouild have exposed him to moral philosophy and what later became the separate discipline of economics. It is likely that his education fostered scepticism as well as a commitment to freedom of religion and the right to hold dissenting opinions, attitudes that would surface in his political career.
Hamilton also served during the War of 1812 where he held the rank of captain with the Niagara Light Dragoons, participating in the capture of Detroit and the Battle of Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane. During 1814, British troops billeted at his Queenston establishment burned the property. This loss, combined with a familiarity with the Head of the Lake acquired during the war when Burlington Heights was heavily garrisoned, may have prompted George Hamilton's purchase of 257 acres of Barton Township from James Durand, in January 1815. Well placed and shrewd, Hamilton likely knew of prewar discussions about creating a new administrative district with a judicial centre. Within a year of his land purchase, George reached agreement with the owner of adjacent property to the north, Nathaniel Hughson, on a scheme which they calculated would increase the possibility of having the court-house and gaol for new district located on Hamilton land's, to the benefit of values on both men's property. Together they empowered James Durand to lobby at the House of Assembly for the Hamilton townsite and to act as an agent selling town lots. The instructions coincided with the very week that the assembly and Legislative Council deliberated on the formation of the new district and the designation of a district town; the act was passed on 22 March 1816. The precise manoevres cannot be documented, but there is little doubt that the origins of the Hamilton townsite, and its location back from the waterfront, derived from a complicated private affair involving Messrs. Hamilton, Hughson, and Durand. The new town was to become the capital of the new Gore District. Hamilton provided land for a court house and jail. The police village of Hamilton was incorporated in 1833.
The offer they made to the government of Upper Canada included the granting of two blocks of land of two acres each to the Crown. These were to be reserved for the construction of public buildings. The overall design of the townsite, likely conceived in 1816, was commonplace. George Hamilton employed a grid street pattern used in most towns in Upper Canada and throughout the American frontier. The eighty original lots had frontages of fifty feet; each lot faced a broad street and backed onto a twelve foot lane. It took at least a decade for all of the original lots to be sold, but the construction of the Burlington Canal in 1823, and a new court-house in 1827 encouraged Hamilton to add more blocks around 1828-9. At this time, he included a market square in an effort to draw commercial activity onto his lands, but the natural growth of the town was to the north of Hamilton's plot.
A private town developer, Hamilton's record was mixed; he literally created the town, but he clearly tried to shape it to benefit his private fortunes. The market ploy, a successful petition for the crown to return one of the original two-acre squares, and eventual disputes over ownership of "the Gore" indicates his manipulative efforts. All the same, he left enduring marks on the urban landscape; the court-house square, the haymarket, "the Gore," and the basic street plan of the city core.
Hamilton represented the riding of Wentworth in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1821 to 1830, where he tended to support moderate reformers and encourage immigration to Canada. He helped set up a canal to link Hamilton harbour to Lake Ontario and worked to secure funding for the court house and jail.
George Hamilton deserves attention as one of a handful of important Canadians who recognized the colony's special needs and possibilities at an early date. His outlook on colonial affairs was truly that of a British-American, a hybrid with an element of self interested zeal.
George Hamilton (7 December 1917 - May 2001) was a Scottish international footballer, who spent most of his 21-year career with Aberdeen.
Born in Irvine, Hamilton started out with local junior side Irvine Meadow before moving south to join Queen of the South, aged 19. After a single season in Dumfries, Aberdeen purchased him for £3000 in April 1938.
Like many of his contemporaries, Hamilton's career was significantly disrupted by the Second World War and, when League football in Scotland went into abeyance in 1939, he returned to his native Ayrshire. Eventually, temporary Regional Leagues were established, and, due to war-time travel restrictions, players would guest for local sides. This resulted in Hamilton turning out for first Ayr United, then Rangers between 1940 and 1945.
Hamilton returned to Aberdeen at the end of global hostilities and enjoyed his most successful period, lifting the transitional 1945-46 League Cup then scoring the winner in the Scottish Cup Final against Hibernian the following season. His consistent good form also earned him a Scotland national team debut against Northern Ireland in 1946. Despite this, Hamilton was approaching veteran status, so when Heart of Midlothian offered £8000 plus the younger Archie Kelly for his services in December 1947, the Reds considered it good value for a 30 year old, and accepted.
The move to Tynecastle did not work out though, and after only 18 appearances for Hearts, an unsettled Hamilton returned to Aberdeen. There he returned to form and, despite Aberdeen’s erratic league results, helped the side to two further (losing) Scottish Cup Final appearances, in 1953 and 1954.
Hamilton twice earned an international recall, initially in 1951, when he scored a hat-trick against Belgium, then remarkably in 1954 when aged 36. This latter return coincided with the 1954 FIFA World Cup and Hamilton was selected in the squad for Switzerland, although he did not play in either of Scotland’s two games.
Age eventually caught up with Hamilton and he was transferred to namesake Hamilton Academical in 1955, having largely watched from the sidelines as a young Dons side won the 1954-55 League title. He retired a matter of months later, just after his 38th birthday.
George Hamilton (c. 1697 - 3 May 1775) was a British politician, the second son of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn.
In October 1719, he married Bridget Coward (d. 1775), by whom he had eleven children:
He was twice Member of Parliament for Wells. He was known for his love of planting.
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Hamilton is the father of the movie and television star George Hamilton (they are not Sr. & Jr.).
Hamilton also developed a perfume called "White Shoulders". He was married to the often-married Anne Stevens Potter Hamilton Hunt Spalding, with whom he fathered the actor George Hamilton.http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,61,00.html
