John Potter Hamilton

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John Potter Hamilton (* 1778 , † January 28, 1873 in Wrexham ) was a British diplomat .

John Potter Hamilton was a member of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. On December 28, 1813 he married Charlotte Fane (born July 26, 1787).

Hamilton was in 1823 together with James Henderson and Patrick Campbell as agent (Engl. Commissioner ) in the newly established State of Colombia sent. Henderson served after the conclusion of a friendship treaty between Great Britain and Colombia (English Treaty of Amity ) until 1829 as consul general . Hamilton and Campbell acted as British ambassadors.

Publications

  • Travels through the Interior Provinces of Colombia . John Murray Verlag, London 1827 ( full text in Google book search).
  • Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman . Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, London 1860 ( full text in Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colonel John Potter Hamilton, KH, late of the Scots Fusilier Guards, died on Jan. 28 at Bodleyfryd, Wrexham, aged 95, after Arthur William Alsager Pollock, The United service magazine, Volume 131, H. Colburn, 1873
  2. Jump up ↑ Edmund Lodge, Anne Innes, Eliza Innes, Maria Innes, The peerage of the British Empire as at present existing
  3. ↑ John Poter Hamilton: Travels through the interior provinces of Colombia, Volume 1. London, the 1827th
  4. ↑ Frederick Arthur Crisp: Visitation of England and Wales . Grove Park Press, London, 1913
  5. ^ The Parliamentary debates from the year 1803 to the present time. Volume XIV, column 116.
predecessor Office successor
British ambassador to Bogotá in
1825 		Alexander Cockburn
personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, John Potter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1778
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1873
Place of death Wrexham