HAMILTON, GEORGE DOUGLAS (1835-1911) was born in France and educated on the continent and at Edinburgh University, and in 1851 received a commission in the 11th hussars. He came to New Zealand in 1857 and managed stations for Dr Featherston and St Hill, afterwards taking up the Mangatoro property in Hawkes Bay. In the Maori war he served in various capacities for eight years, being twice wounded. He was deputy land frauds commissioner in 1867-68; chairman of the Seventy Mile road board (1868-72), president of the Woodville and Dannevirke Jockey clubs and of the Bush Districts Farmers' club (1891-1900). He did much to stock the rivers of his district with trout, and published Trout Fishing and Sport in New Zealand (1904). His only other publication was The Relation of Capital to Agriculture and Labour in New Zealand (1892). He died on 29 Nov 1911.

App. H.R.; N.Z. Times, 7 Oct 1910; Who's Who N.Z., 1908.

Reference: Volume 1, page 191

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