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Canadian Anglican bishop

Charles Hamilton

Born	1834
Died	1919 (aged 84–85) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Education	University College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	priest,bishop
Spouse	Frances Louisa Hume Thomson

Charles Hamilton (1834–1919) was a Canadian Anglican bishop who was the first Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario and Metropolitan of Canada.

Hamilton was educated at the High School of Montreal and University College, Oxford. He was a curate of Quebec cathedral and then incumbent of St Peter's Church in the same city. In 1884, he became the Bishop of Niagara. He was translated to become the Bishop of Ottawa in 1896 and was additionally elected as the Metropolitan of Canada in 1909 and then of Ontario in 1912. He died in 1919.

Family

Hamilton married Frances Louisa Hume Thomson, daughter of Tannatt Houston Thomson, Commissary-General of Canada, and his wife, Margaret Anne Ussher, the sister of Edgeworth Ussher. They lived at Bishopscourt, Ottawa, and were the parents of nine children: Charles Robert Hamilton, K.C. of Nelson, B.C.; Lilian Margaret (wife of Lenox I. Smith of Ottawa); Mabel Frances (wife of Edward Kirwan Martin of Hamilton, Ontario); Ethel Mary Hamilton; Hubert Valentine Hamilton; Winifred Katharine Hamilton; the Revd Harold Francis Hamilton (Professor of Pastoral Theology, Bishop's College, Lenoxville, Quebec); Mary Agnes (Molly) (actress in New York and London and correspondent of George Bernard Shaw); Lt. Col. George Theodore Hamilton of Ottawa and Victoria, B.C.

Ethel Mary Hamilton was born and educated in Quebec. She accompanied her parents on her father's election to the bishopric of the Ottawa, Ontario diocese in 1896. On May Day, 1898, at Government House, Ethel Mary Hamilton was elected and crowned "May Queen". She presided over the May Court Club, which had been established by the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen from 1896 until 1900.

References

Roberts, C.G.D.; Tunnell, A.L. (1910). "The Canadian Who's who". Canadian Who's Who: With Which is Incorporated "Canadian Men and Women of the Time". 1. University of Toronto Press: 99. ISSN 0068-9963. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
'HAMILTON, Most Rev. Charles', in The Canadian Who's Who (1909)
"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
The Times, 5 March 1919; pg. 1; Issue 42040; col A Deaths
Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1903). Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada. Toronto: Williams Briggs. p. 146.

Church of England titles
Preceded byThomas Brock Fuller	Bishop of Niagara 1884 –1896	Succeeded byJohn Philip Du Moulin
Preceded byInaugural appointment	Bishop of Ottawa 1896 –1914	Succeeded byJohn Charles Roper
Preceded byArthur Sweatman	Metropolitan of Canada 1909 –1912	Succeeded byClarendon Lamb Worrell
Preceded byInaugural appointment	Metropolitan of Ontario 1912 –1914	Succeeded byGeorge Thorneloe

v t e Bishops of Niagara
Thomas Fuller Charles Hamilton Philip Du Moulin William Clark Derwyn Owen Lewis Broughall Walter Bagnall John Bothwell Walter Asbil Ralph Spence Michael Bird Susan Bell
Suffragans	Clarence Mitchell Kent Clarke

v t e Anglican Bishops of Ottawa
Charles Hamilton Charles Roper Robert Jefferson Ernest Reed William Robinson Edwin Lackey John Baycroft Peter Coffin John Chapman Shane Parker
Suffragans	Kent Clarke

v t e Metropolitans of Canada
Francis Fulford Ashton Oxenden John Medley John Lewis William Bond Arthur Sweatman Charles Hamilton Clarendon Worrell John Richardson John Hackenley Philip Carrington John Dixon Henry O'Neil William Davis Robert Seaborn Harold Nutter Reginald Hollis Stewart Payne Arthur Peters Bruce Stavert Claude Miller Percy Coffin Ronald Cutler David Edwards

v t e Metropolitans of Ontario
Charles Hamilton George Thorneloe David Williams James Sweeny Charles Roper John Anderson Charles Seager John Lyons Robert Renison William Wright James Watton Lewis Garnsworthy John Bothwell Edwin Lackey Percy O'Driscoll Terence Finlay Caleb Lawrence Colin Johnson Anne Germond

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