Eric Hamilton (bishop)

Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton KCVO[1] (1890 – 21 May 1962) was an Anglican bishop.

He was born in 1890 and educated at Bradfield School and University College, Oxford.

[3] He was the youngest of the four adult sons of Charles Hamilton, sometime rector of Broome, Worcestershire.

[7] He was consecrated a bishop on the feast of the Conversion of Paul (25 January) 1940, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.

[9] A man committed to the worldwide church[10] who "took the very greatest and most conscientious of pains".