Hamilton of Ipswich, was born at Coleraine, co. Londonderry, in 1749, and educated to medicine at Edinburgh.
at Edinburgh (thesis 'De Nicotians viribus in Medicina') and probably left the army about the same time.
His tract 'Description of the Influenza,' dedicated 28 May 1782 to the colonel of the 10th regiment, shows him to have been then in practice in and near Luton, Bedfordshire.
It was the first systematic treatise of the kind, and was used by E. B. G. Hebenstreit as the basis of his 'Handbuch' on the same subject, Leipzig, 1790.
His other writings are: He was a warm supporter of civil and religious liberty, and an advocate of the abolition of the slave trade.