THOMAS HAMILTON BIOGRAPHY
THOMAS HAMILTON BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842). —Novelist, brother of Sir William Hamilton ( q.v. ), wrote a novel, Cyril Thornton (1827), which was received with great favour. He was an officer in the army, and, on his retirement, settled in Edin., and became a contributor to Blackwood . He was also the author of Annals of the Peninsular Campaign (1829), and Men and Manners in America (1833).