Edward Walter Hamilton

Sir Edward Hamilton (1847–1908) was political diarist and one time private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone when in 1880 when Gladstone became Prime Minister for the second time. Following Gladstone's defeat in 1885 he was appointed by the new Prime Minister, the Tory Lord Salisbury to a position in the Treasury where he became a pillar of the Victorian establishment.

While Hamilton always retained strong links to Gladstone and his family, politically he was closer to Gladstone's successor Lord Rosebery to whom he was a close friend and Eton contemporary.

Hamilton published a diary of political gossip under the pseudonym "Nemo" (Latin for "no man" or "no one"). He died unmarried in 1908.

Government offices
Preceded by Sir Ralph Lingen	Permanent Secretary to the Treasury 1885–1907 with Sir Reginald Welby (1885–1894) Sir Francis Mowatt (1894–1903) Sir George Murray (1903–1907)	Succeeded by Sir George Murray

References

Hamilton, Sir Edward Walter (1980). .The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton (complete in 2 Volumes - Bahlman, Dudley, Editor). Oxford: the Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-822324-2.

External links

Works written by or about Edward Walter Hamilton at Wikisource
National register of archives accessed 26 October 2006.

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Name	Hamilton, Edward
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Date of birth	1847
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Date of death	1908
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