Major-General Sir Hamilton St Clair Bower KCB DL (1 September 1858 – 5 March 1940) was a British Indian Army officer who wrote about his travels through Xinjiang and Tibet.

[5] Originally commissioned into the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Artillery Militia, he was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment 23 October 1880.

[11][1] In 1889-1890 Lieutenant Hamilton Bower travelled through Chinese Turkestan, where in the city of Kucha he purchased a Sanskrit-language manuscript written in the Brahmi alphabet.

[13] During his time in Turkestan, Bower, who was then a British intelligence officer on a Government mission, attempted to track down the killer of Andrew Dalgleish, a Scottish trader murdered on the road from Leh to Yarkand in 1888.

In 1894 he received the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal "for his remarkable journey across Tibet, from west to east".

After the end of hostilities, he was from 21 July to 30 November 1901 the delegate of the British military commander (Major-General O'Moore Creagh) on the provisional government.