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Hamilton, Sir William Rowan, (1805-1865), Knight, mathematician

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Surname: Hamilton
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: William Rowan
Gender: Male
Date: 1805-1865
Title: Knight
Biography: ODNB link for Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865) Knight Mathematician
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P157185 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P12826 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1820-65: corresp and papers
Trinity College Dublin
MS 1492
NRA 20076 Hamilton
2
1829-60: corresp with Lord Dunraven
Limerick University Library
NRA 26717 Wyndham-Quin
3
1829-37: letters and poems from FB Edgeworth
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Edgeworth papers
NRA 30927 Edgeworth
4
1845-49: letters to Lord Kelvin
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add 7342, 7656
NRA 20700 Stokes
5
1831-38: letters to Sir John Lubbock
Royal Society
LUB
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
6
letters from Denis Florence MacCarthy
Trinity College Dublin
Hamilton-O'Regan 1539
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
7
1843-47: corresp with Sir Robert Peel
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 40535, 40547, 40599
8
1833-47: letters (11) to William Whewell
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
WHEWELL
NRA 8804