Robert Hamilton (archaeologist)
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Robert Hamilton FBA |
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| Born |
Robert William Hamilton 26 November 1905 |
| Died | 25 September 1995 (aged 89) |
| Education | Winchester College |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Occupation |
Archaeologist Lecturer Curator |
| Title | Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum |
| Term | 1962 to 1972 |
| Predecessor | Sir Karl Parker |
| Successor | Sir David Piper |
| Spouse(s) | Eileen Hetty Lowick |
| Children | Five |
Robert William Hamilton, FBA (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1995) was a British archaeologist and academic. He was senior lecturer in Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1949 to 1956 and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1959 to 1972. He was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum from 1962 to 1972.
Hamilton was born on 26 November 1905. His father was William Stirling Hamilton, a British civil servant working for the Indian Civil Service in the British Raj. His paternal great grandfather was Sir William Hamilton who was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.
From the age of four, he was educated at Girton Hall School in Torquay, Devon. During this time, his parents were living in India and so he was accompanied and brought up by a nurse. He spent 1911 and 1912 in India with his family, and experienced the life of a child of the colonial elite. He then returned to England and boarded at Copthorne School in Crawley, Sussex. From 1919 to 1924, he was educated at Winchester College, an all-boys public school in Winchester, Hampshire. He then matriculated into Magdalen College, Oxford to study classics. Having gained a double first, achieving firsts in both Mods and Greats, he graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1928.
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