Hamilton was educated at Radley and University College, Oxford.

He was a director of Royal Exchange Assurance and of Army & Navy Stores.

Hamilton was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Wellingborough in 1959, which he lost in 1964.

He was an opposition whip from 1961 to 1964, a senior one from the second year (a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury).

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