George Hamilton

George Hamilton (April 13, 1781 – January 7, 1839) was a lumber baron and public official in Upper Canada. Ireland In 1781, George Hamilton was born at Hamwood House, in County Meath, Ireland. He was the third son of Charles Hamilton (d. 1818), who built Hamwood, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Crewe Chetwood of Woodbrook, Queen's County. His family were descended from James Hamilton of Finnart and had come to Ireland during the reign of James VI and I in the Plantations of Ireland. He was a nephew of Hugh Hamilton, Bishop of Ossory, and his first cousin, George Hamilton of Hampton Hall, County Dublin (a priest), was the father of George Alexander Hamilton. Quebec