Surname: Hamilton Forename(s): William b. 1704. d. 25 March 1754. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet and Jacobite army officer. Composed Jacobite anthems for Prince Charles Stuart
(Bonnie Prince Charlie). Hamilton went into exile in France after the Jacobite defeat
at Culloden. Author of Poems on Several Occasions (1748, 1749). Biographical information: ODNB.