author
Lord Ernest Hamilton
1858–1939
A younger son of the Duke of Abercorn, he moved through the worlds of cavalry service, Parliament, and print with an eye for drama and detail. His books range from fiction to military history and memoir, giving readers a lively window into late Victorian and early 20th-century Britain.
1 Audiobook
The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres
by Lord Ernest Hamilton
About the author
Born on 5 September 1858, Lord Ernest William Hamilton was a British aristocrat, army officer, politician, and writer. He was educated at Harrow, served in the 11th Hussars, and later sat as the Conservative MP for North Tyrone from 1885 to 1892.
Writing became an important part of his public life. Sources describe him as both a novelist and a memoirist, and surviving works linked with him include The Outlaws of the Marches, the wartime history The First Seven Divisions, and the memoir Forty Years On. Taken together, they show a writer interested in public affairs, military life, and the society he knew from the inside.
Hamilton died on 14 December 1939. For audiobook listeners, he offers a distinctly personal voice from the British upper class of his era—observant, political, and closely connected to the military and social worlds he wrote about.