Eric Hamilton (bishop)

Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton was an Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Shrewsbury, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Lichfield, and was then Dean of Windsor from 1944 until his death.

Biography

He was born in 1890 and educated at Bradfield School and University College, Oxford. He was the youngest of the four adult sons of Charles Hamilton, sometime rector of Broome, Worcestershire.
Hamilton was ordained both times alongside his brother, Crewe : they were made deacons on the Feast of St Thomas 1913 and ordained priests on 20 December 1914; both times by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral. He was later priest in charge of St John's, Knightsbridge, vicar of St Nicholas Church, Chiswick and then of St Paul's, Knightsbridge before being appointed Bishop suffragan of Shrewsbury in 1940. He was consecrated a bishop on the feast of the Conversion of Paul 1940, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. Four years later he was appointed Dean of Windsor.
A man committed to the worldwide church who "took the very greatest and most conscientious of pains". He died in office as Dean of Windsor on 21 May 1962.