Henry Parr Hamilton (3 April 1794 – 7 February 1880) was a Scots-born clergyman and mathematician, who was Dean of Salisbury for 30 years.
He was educated at Edinburgh University and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1816 and MA in 1819.
He became a curate in Cambridgeshire in 1825 and the rector of Wath near Ripon in 1830,[3] becoming a rural dean in 1847.
In 1850 he was appointed Dean of Salisbury, a position he filled until his death in 1880.
He had married Ellen Masson, daughter of Thomas Masson of Copt Hewick, Yorkshire, with whom he had one daughter, Katherine Jane (died 1928), who married Sir Edward Hulse, 5th Baronet.