Charles Hamilton (bishop)

Charles Hamilton (1834 - 1919) was a Canadian Anglican bishop who was the first Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario and Metropolitan of Canada.[1]

Hamilton was educated at University College, Oxford. He was a curate of Quebec cathedral and then incumbent of St Peter's Church in the same city. In 1884 he became the Bishop of Niagara.[2] He was translated to become the Bishop of Ottawa in 1896 and was additionally elected as the Metropolitan of Canada in 1909 and then of Ontario in 1912. He died in 1919.[3]

Family

Ethel Mary Hamilton, daughter

Hamilton married Frances Louisa Hume Thomson, daughter of Tannatt Houston Thomson, Commissary-General of Canada, and his wife, Margaret Anne Ussher, the sister of Edgeworth Ussher. They lived at Bishopscourt, Ottawa, and were the parents of nine children: Charles Robert Hamilton, K.C. of Nelson, B.C.; Lilian Margaret (wife of Lenox I. Smith of Ottawa); Mabel Frances (wife of Edward Kirwan Martin of Hamilton, Ontario); Ethel Mary Hamilton; Hubert Valentine Hamilton; Winifred Katharine Hamilton; the Rev. Harold Francis Hamilton (Professor of Pastoral Theology, Bishop's College, Lenoxville, Quebec); Mary Agnes (Molly) (actress in New York and London and correspondent of George Bernard Shaw); Lt. Col. George Theodore Hamilton of Ottawa and Victoria, B.C.

References

  1. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  2. The Times, 5 March 1919; pg. 1; Issue 42040; col A Deaths
  3. Morgan, Henry James Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada : (Toronto, 1903)
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Thomas Brock Fuller
Bishop of Niagara
1884 1896
Succeeded by
John Philip Du Moulin
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment
Bishop of Ottawa
1896 1914
Succeeded by
John Charles Roper
Preceded by
Arthur Sweatman
Metropolitan of Canada
1909 1912
Succeeded by
Clarendon Lamb Worrell
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment
Metropolitan of Ontario
1912 1914
Succeeded by
George Thorneloe