PATRICKHAMILTON (1504-1528), Scottish divine, second son of Sir PatrickHamilton, well known in Scottish chivalry, and of Catherine Stewart, daughter of Alexander, duke of Albany, second son of James II.
Hamilton fled to Germany, first visiting Luther at Wittenberg, and afterwards enrolling himself as a student, under Franz Lambert of Avignon, in the new university of Marburg, opened on the 30th of May 1527 by Philip, landgrave of Hesse.
Hamilton was seized, and, it is said, surrendered to the soldiery on an assurance that he would be restored to his friends without injury.
PatrickHamilton was one of the more successful playwrights and novelists of the 1930s and '40s, and saw his two greatest plays turned into extremely popular movies.
Hamilton's books, which all dealt with the seamier sides of lower-class life in England, were filled with vividly realistic dialogue and descriptions, and were populated by men and women in disturbed, psychologically warped relationships; indeed, one of his novels, The Midnight Bell (1929), was based upon his own infatuation with a prostitute.
Hamilton was a man uniquely attuned to the dark side of human relations as a motivating force and, in many ways, was far out in front of the popular sensibilities and perceptions of his era, a fact reflected in the continued popularity of his work more than 40 years after his death.
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