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Lord Ernest Hamilton
1858–1939
An aristocrat who moved between army life, politics, and writing, he brought a sharp, opinionated voice to everything he did. His books draw on the world of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, from Parliament to the social habits of the upper classes.
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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 at Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, Lord Ernest William Hamilton was the seventh son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, served in the 11th Hussars, and later entered politics as the Conservative MP for North Tyrone, sitting in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.
Alongside public life, he built a substantial career as a writer. Reference works describe him as both a politician and a writer, and his background in the military and in Parliament gave him material for memoir, commentary, and fiction. His work is often linked with the attitudes and social world of the British upper class in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He died on 14 December 1939. Today he is remembered as a figure who combined public service with a busy literary life, leaving behind writing shaped by direct experience of politics, society, and empire.