William Mogford Hamlet

However, he continued his scientific studies and attended the Bristol trade and mining school in the evenings, where he received the Queen's medal for inorganic chemistry.

[2] He gained a scholarship, which enabled him to proceed to the Royal College of Chemistry, where he studied under Sir Edward Frankland, After an appointment as demonstrator of chemistry at the Bristol Medical School, he entered into a contract with the Bristol agents of the Peruvian Government to analyse the consignments of natural Peruvian guano, then imported from the Chincha Islands and Guañape Islands.

[2] Hamlet next received an appointment as official public analyst for the town of Kings Lynn and later fitted up a research laboratory for a large London brewery.

[2] He was advised to proceed to Australia for health reasons, and arrived in Sydney on 14 February 1884 where he was employed as a lecturer in chemistry for the Department of Education (New South Wales) and later as Assistant to the Government Analyst.

[citation needed] William Mogford Hamlet died at his residence, "Glendowan," Glenbrook, on 18 November 1931 at the age of 81 years, leaving a widow and three children.