George Hamilton (archdeacon)

[3] He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Dublin[4] and ordained in 1847.

[8] Hamilton married (first) "Bella Best", Arabella Sarah Best, whose father John Best (1791–1825) came from Worcester.

He was an accountant with the East India Company in Bombay, and his wife Arabella née Robinson (1795–1855) and children seem to have travelled much between there and Sunderland, where Bella's mother came from.

Hamilton's first wife Bella died in January 1868, having produced two sons, Alfred (a black sheep) (born 1849) and Harry (1850–1935), and a daughter, Eliza Arabella Sarah, known as Ella (1858–1919).

A year and a half after the death of his first wife, on 1 June 1869, Hamilton married the Lady Louisa Frances Clemens (1843–1939), who presented him with another daughter and three more sons, the youngest of whom, George (1877–1947) was an English electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician.