A. (Angus) Hamilton

Born in 1874, Angus Hamilton was a British writer and journalist best known as a war correspondent. Sources identify him more fully as John Angus Lushington Moore Hamilton, and note that he reported for newspapers and journals from the 1890s into the early 1910s.

He covered major events including the Boer War, the Boxer uprising, and the Russo-Japanese War. That reporting fed into a series of nonfiction books, among them Korea, Problems of the Middle East, and Afghanistan, which helped establish his reputation as an observer of politics, travel, and imperial rivalries.

Hamilton died on June 14, 1913. Though not widely remembered today, his books remain useful snapshots of how one well-traveled British correspondent saw Asia and the wider world in the years just before the First World War.