Robert Hamilton (June 11, 1743 - 1829), Scottisheconomist and mathematician, was born at Pilrig, Edinburgh. June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... Events February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister February 21 - - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handels oratorio, Samson. ... 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country in northwest Europe, occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain. ... An economist is someone who studies Economics. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. ...
His grandfather, William Hamilton, principal of Edinburgh University, had been a professor of divinity. Having completed his education at the university of Edinburgh, where he was distinguished in mathematics, Robert was induced to enter a banking-house in order to acquire a practical knowledge of business, but his ambition was really academic. The University of Edinburgh was founded in 1583 as a renowned centre for teaching in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...
Hamilton's most important work is the Essay on the National Debt, which appeared in 1813 and was undoubtedly the first to expose the economic fallacies involved in Pitt's policy of a sinking fund. It is still of value. A posthumous volume published in 1830, The Progress of Society, is also of great ability, and is a very effective treatment of economical principles by tracing their natural origin and position in the development of social life. Some minor works of a practical character (Introduction to Merchandise, 1777; Essay on War and Peace, 1790) are now forgotten. 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759–23 January 1806) was a British politician during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ...
RobertHamilton ( June 11, 1743 - 1829), Scottish economist and mathematician, was born at Pilrig, Edinburgh.
Having completed his education at the university of Edinburgh, where he was distinguished in mathematics, Robert was induced to enter a banking-house in order to acquire a practical knowledge of business, but his ambition was really academic.
Hamilton's most important work is the Essay on the National Debt, which appeared in 1813 and was undoubtedly the first to expose the economic fallacies involved in Pitt 's policy of a sinking fund.
These truths Dr Hamilton is not content with proving argumentatively—he has coupled them with a minute history of the various financial proceedings of the country, and tables of practical calculation, giving, on the one hand, historical information; and, on the others showing the exact sums which the government has at different periods misapplied.
Dr Hamilton left three daughters, of whom the second was married to the late Mr Thomson of Banchory, in Kincardineshire, and the youngest to the Rev. Robert Swan of Abercrombie, in Fife.
Dr Hamilton was remarkable for his absence; not that he mingled subjects with each other, and mistook what he was thinking about, the error of a weak mind, but he was frequently engaged in his mathematical studies, when other persons were differently employed.
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