William John Hamilton

William John Hamilton ( born July 5, 1805 in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland, † June 27, 1867 ) was a British geologist.

He was the son of Scottish ancient scientist and diplomat William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), the author of Aegyptiaca or description of the condition of the old and the new Egypt: was according to their own, employed in the years 1801 and 1802 observations.

William John Hamilton attended the Charterhouse School and studied in Göttingen. In 1831 he became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.

In 1835 he undertook with Hugh Edwin Strickland, a geological journey through the Levant and then alone through Armenia and Asia Minor.

He was the first to have climbed the mountain Erciyes Dagi in Kayseri (Turkey).

From 1854 to 1866 he was president of the Geological Society of London.

1853 Hamilton was appointed honorary member of the Nassau Association for Natural History.

Works

• Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia ( 1842).