George Hamilton | |
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![]() Hamilton in 1936 | |
Member of Parliament for Altrincham | |
In office 1913–1923 | |
Preceded by | John Kebty-Fletcher |
Succeeded by | Robert Alstead |
Member of Parliament for Ilford | |
In office 1928–1937 | |
Preceded by | Fredric Wise |
Succeeded by | Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson |
Personal details | |
Born | Northumberland,England |
Political party | Conservative,Unionist |
Sir Collingwood George Clements Hamilton,1st Baronet (1 November 1877 –12 January 1947) was an English electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician. [1]
Born in Northumberland, [2] he was the son of a prominent Church of England cleric,the Venerable George Hans Hamilton,Archdeacon of Lindisfarne then Northumberland,Canon of Durham and his wife Lady Louisa Hamilton. [1]
Following education at Aysgarth School and Charterhouse School,he was apprenticed to the firm of Scott &Mountain Ltd,a Newcastle-based electrical and general engineering company. He represented the company in various countries including India,Bulgaria,Greece,Russia and Egypt. [1] He subsequently became the managing director of the Manchester branch of Drake &Gorham,electrical engineers. [3]
He married Eleanor Simon of Didsbury in 1906,and they had one son and one daughter. [1]
During World War I he was commissioned as an officer in the Queen's Westminster Rifles,the 16th Battalion of the London Regiment,rising to the rank of major. [1] In October 1916 he was transferred to the General List. [4] He was appointed Director of Enrolment National Service in 1917 and Controller of Contract Claims at the Ministry of Munitions in 1918. [1] [5]
From 1910 to 1913 he was a councillor on the Knutsford Urban District Council. [6]
In 1913 he won a by-election and was elected to the Commons as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Altrincham. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Pensions from 1919 to 1920. [1] He held the seat until 1923. He returned to parliament at another by-election at Ilford in 1928. He resigned from the House of Commons in 1937.
He was knighted in 1922 Birthday Honours, [5] [7] and made a baronet in the 1937 Coronation Honours "for political and public services". [8] [9]
Hamilton moved to Cransford Hall,near Saxmundham in Suffolk. He became a member of East Suffolk County Council,and was chairman of two companies:the Expanded Metal Company and the National Group of Fixed Trusts. [1]