The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Hamilton, Rev. R.
Hamilton, Rev. R., M.A., D.D., arrived in Victoria from Scotland in 1851, and almost immediately took up the pastorate of the Fitzroy Presbyterian Church, which position he held until 1883, when he retired from active ministry. Dr. Hamilton was well known as an advocate of the Second Advent doctrine, upon which subject he wrote and published several books, but he was best known amongst Presbyterians for his "History of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria," and for this he received the degree of D.D. The welfare of the aborigines occupied a prominent place in his thoughts, and many years ago he selected a tract of land at Healesville which he dedicated to their benefit. He died in 1891, at the age of seventy-eight.