His father Alexander Hamilton was the fifth son of William Hamilton the Scottish antiquarian, who died in 1724.[3] He had married the heiress Charlotte Styles, and so acquired the Essex manor of Holyfield (Hallifield), in the north-east of the parish of Waltham Holy Cross which remained in the family into the 19th century.[4] The Hamilton family owned also the Debden Hall farm and estate (see Debden House).[5] The owner of Debden Hall was Alex. Hamilton on a map of 1777.[6] Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses proposes the identification of Alexander Hamilton as the London solicitor of the name.[1] He moved to Loughton, transferring the remains of Charlotte and three children to be reburied there in 1744.[7]
Anthony Hamilton junior was a younger son of the marriage.[8] He was educated at Harrow School and entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1755. He graduated B.A. there in 1760, M.A. in 1763, and D.D. in 1775.[1]
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^'Cork Street and Savile Row Area: Table of notable inhabitants on the Burlington Estate', in Survey of London: Volumes 31 and 32, St James Westminster, Part 2, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1963), pp. 566–572 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols31-2/pt2/pp566-572 [accessed 7 September 2015].