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Professor Allan McLane Hamilton FRSE (1848-1919) was an American psychiatrist and alienist of Scots descent, specialising in suicide and the impact of accidents and trauma upon mental health, and in criminal insanity (appearing at several trials). He was a founder of the New York Psychiatrical Society. He was a Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College in New York. He was the grandson of Alexander Hamilton, about whom he wrote a biography.
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Life
Hamilton was born in Brooklyn in New York on October 6, 1848, the son of Philip Hamilton (1802–1884) and his wife, Rebecca McLane (1806–1893). His older brother, Captain Louis McLane Hamilton, served in the American Civil War and later died while serving under General George Armstrong Custer. His paternal grandfather was an American founding father, Alexander Hamilton.
In 1881–1882, Hamilton gave evidence during the trial of Charles J. Guiteau, who assassinated President James A. Garfield in 1881, on the subject of Guiteau's sanity.
He appears to have visited Scotland in the late 1890s. In 1899 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir James Crichton-Browne, Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, Sir John Batty Tuke and Sir James Dewar.
He died on November 23, 1919 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, aged 71. He is buried in Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery outside New York.
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Family
He married twice: firstly to Florence R Craig; secondly to May Copeland Tomlinson. He had one child by his first marriage: Louis McLane Hamilton (1876-1911) who predeceased him.