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Up for sale a RARE! "Scottish Metaphysician" Sir William Hamilton Clipped Signature attached to 5 lines of writing in his hand. 

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Sir

William Hamilton, 9th Baronet FRSE (8

March 1788 – 6 May 1856) was a Scottish metaphysician.

He is often referred to as William Stirling Hamilton of

Preston, in reference to his mother, Elizabeth Stirling. He was born in rooms

at the University of Glasgow[1] He was from an academic family. His

father Professor William Hamilton, had in 1781, on the strong

recommendation of William Hunter, been appointed to succeed his own father, Dr

Thomas Hamilton, as Regius Professor of Anatomy, Glasgow; and when he died in

1790, aged 32, he had already gained a great reputation. William Hamilton and

his younger brother, Thomas Hamilton, were brought up by their mother. William

received his early education at Glasgow Grammar School, except for two years which he spent in

a private school at Chiswick in Kent, and in 1807 went as a Snell

Exhibitioner, to Balliol College, Oxford. He obtained a first class in literis

humanioribus and took his BA in 1811 (MA 1814). He had been intended

for the medical profession, however soon after leaving Oxford he gave up this

idea, and in 1813 became a member of the Scottish bar, as a qualified advocate.

His life continued to be that of a student; and the years that followed were

filled by researches of all kinds, while at the same time he was gradually

forming his philosophic system. Investigation enabled him to make good his

claim to represent the ancient family of Hamilton of Preston, and in 1816 he

took up the baronetcy, which had been in abeyance since the death of Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston (1650–1701), well known in

his day as a covenanting leader. He inspired many young adults. Two

visits to Germany in 1817 and 1820 led to William's taking up the study of

German and later on that of contemporary German philosophy, which was almost

entirely neglected in British universities. In 1820 he was a candidate for the

chair of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, which had fallen vacant on the death

of Thomas Brown, colleague of Dugald

Stewart, and Stewart's consequent resignation, however he was

defeated on political grounds by John Wilson, (1785–1854), the "Christopher North"

of Blackwood's Magazine. In 1821 he was appointed professor

of civil history, and delivered several courses of lectures on the history of

modern Europe and the history of literature. The salary was £100 a year,

derived from a local beer tax, and was discontinued after a time. No pupils

were compelled to attend, the class dwindled, and Hamilton gave it up when the

salary ceased. In January 1827 his mother, to whom he had been devoted, died.

In March 1828 he married his cousin, Janet Marshall.

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