Sir William Hamilton Passport 1818
Sir William Hamilton passport
Hamilton served almost half a century as her Majesty’s consul.
Signed by ‘Robert Annesley’ and with an autograph note signed by ‘Vertonghen’, next to the red stamp of the Commissariat Special de Police.’ Requesting that ‘Monsieur William Hamilton Vice-Consul Britannique se rendant a nous’ be allowed to travel unhindered with his baggage. Docketed in two hands in French on the reverse.
He was appointed Vice-Consul at Flushing and Middleburg in 1817; at Antwerp and afterward at Ostend in 1818; at Nieuport in 1820; and at Boulogne in 1822. In 1826 he was appointed Consul there and was knighted for his extended official services in 1873 when he retired on a pension of £500 a year, which is in today’s value a sum of approx. £305.000.
Documents of Hamilton are in The National Archives, e.g., his will. Sir William Hamilton passport
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