Hamerton (surname)

Last updated April 05, 2019

Hamerton is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca. It is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, as England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula in the Baltic Sea. The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse, and to a greater extent by Latin and French.

Bob Hamerton (1911–1990), Canadian swimmer
Greg Hamerton (born 1973), South African fantasy novelist and extreme sports writer
John Miller Hamerton (1778–1855), British Army officer
Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834–1894), British art critic and writer
Robert Hamerton-Kelly (1938–2013), South African Christian theologian, United Methodist pastor and author

Bob Hamerton was a Canadian swimmer. He competed in four events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Greg Hamerton is a South African fantasy novelist and extreme sports writer.

General John Millett Hamerton was a British Army officer who fought in various overseas campaigns including the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign.

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