Captain R. W. Hamilton and Mrs Hamilton
(1833-1883 and 1831-1916)
January 1863

Volume 10, page 32, sitting number 12,495. 

On 10 July 1856 at St Paul's Church in Knightsbridge 'Captain Robert William Hamilton, of the Grenadier Guards, [married] Charlotte Maria, only daughter of Robert Palmer, Esq., of Nazing Park, Essex' [London Evening Standard, 14 July 1856].

The couple appear on the 1871 census living at 8 Chesham Place in London with their son and two daughters. Also present on the night of the census were a private teacher and five servants. 

Robert William Hamilton 'formerly of 108 Eaton-square afterwards of 35 St George's-road but late of 1 Cadogan-square all in the County of Middlesex formerly a Lieutenant-Colonel in Her Majesty's Army' died, aged 50, on 3 October 1883 at Dinard in France. He left an estate valued at £37,829.

According to the Morning Post (8 October 1883), the cause of death was 'congestion of the liver.'