Author: Hamilton, Sarah
Biography:
HAMILTON, Sarah (1769-1843: ancestry.com)
She was born in Lynn, Norfolk, one of the eight children of Scottish-born Robert Hamilton, a respected physician in that town until his death in 1793, and his wife Jane Hawkins, who had married in Norfolk on 12 Mar. 1752. The title-pages and subjects of her poems indicate a taste for travel--Matlock, Scotland, Norwich, Leamington, Sherwood Forest--and she must have had a good education in order to translate the French of Frederick the Great (q.v.) as she did. (She had four brothers and gives the death of some near relations in warfare and the survival of others still in service as justification for her taking up Frederick's subject of the art of war.) Her final poem was The Druid and the Holy King (1838, 1840) by "A Visitor of Royal Leamington Spa." She never married. It is possible that her travels to spa towns indicate that she herself was an invalid, but she lived well into her seventies and died at Leamington on 6 Nov. 1843. She was buried there at All Saints, Leamington Priors, on 9 Nov. (ancestry.com 18 Jan. 2022; findmypast 18 Jan. 2022; "Hamilton, Robert," ODNB 18 Jan. 2022; GM Oct. 1844, 444)
Other Names:
- Miss Hamilton