Agnes Hamilton née Sillars (born c. 1794, died Edinburgh 22 October 1870) was a Scottish reformer, public lecturer and phrenologist who argued for women's right to an education which promoted gender equality.
[1] She gave public lectures on phrenology, religious liberty as a right, and on women's right to an education which promoted gender equality.
Where she gathered interest she would spend some months in that town but in other cases she would quickly move on.
[4] Her son Archibald Sillars Hamilton was a phrenologist in his twenties and he left for Australia in 1854 where he continued that profession.
[4] Archibald was given the head of Ned Kelly after his death and he published an account of the skull's phrenology.