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Hamilton, Sir William 1730-1803
Scottish diplomat and antiquary

He was British ambassador at Naples from 1764 to 1800, and he married Emma Hamilton there in 1791. He took an active part in the excavation of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and formed rare collections of antiquities, one of them purchased in 1772 for the British Museum. He wrote several works on Greek and Roman antiquities.