3-039-027 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Movers and Seconders of the Address in the Lords and Commons: Major J. G. C. Hamilton, M.P., 1871. 'John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, Esq., M.P. for South Lanarkshire, who moved the Address in the House of Commons...entered the 2nd Life Guards in 1847. He retired, with the rank of Captain, in 1860, and has been Major of the Queen's Own (Glasgow) Yeomanry since 1856, and a Vice-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire since 1865...In politics a Liberal, he is especially in favour of education extended into a truly national system, but he is for the efficiency of the Army and Navy being maintained; the former being a topic on which he dilated and spoke with the decision acquired by professional experience in his speech on the first night of the Session. Although, to the apprehension of most persons, making his first appearance as a speaker on this occasion, he has had some experience in Parliament - inasmuch as he sat for Falkirk from 1857 till April, 1859. He was not re-elected in the latter year, but was chosen one of the members for the new (south) division of Lanarkshire, at the general election of 1868'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.