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3 unusual facts about Ian Hamilton


Home After Three Months Away

Ian Hamilton, who wrote a biography on Lowell, suggests that the poem owes something to W.D. Snodgrass' poem "Heart's Needle" since "Heart's Needle," which came out prior to Life Studies, focused on Snodgrass' relationship with his child.

Ian Hamilton

Jan Hamilton (born 1964), previously known as Ian Hamilton, a transsexual woman and the first officer in the British Army to complete gender re-assignment

Kingsley Black

After his release from Grimsby, he joined other former Grimsby players Adam Buckley, Ian Hamilton and Andy Smith by joining Lincoln City.


Edward Pygge

Edward Pygge was a pseudonym used by Ian Hamilton, John Fuller, Clive James, Russell Davies and Julian Barnes.

Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association

GUSNA was thrown into prominence in the early 1950s when a group of its members (including Ian Hamilton who would later become a well known Queen's Counsel) took the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950.

Walter Braithwaite

In 1915, he was appointed Chief of Staff for the Mediterranean Expedition, commanded by Ian Hamilton.


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Doornkop

The ridge was taken by cavalry under command of Lt Gen John French while a nearby ridge, now covered by several Soweto suburbs, was taken by seven infantry battalions, including the City Imperial Volunteers and Gordon Highlanders of Lt Gen Ian Hamilton.