Graduating from Princeton University in 1922 Hamilton was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford. In addition to his undergraduate he also received his master's degree from Princeton becoming professor of English at the university a position he held for decades eventually being made a dean.
In 1923 he married the future well known novelist Anya Seton, the daughter of naturalist and co-founder of Boy Scouts of America Ernest Thompson Seton, with whom he had two children Seton and Pamela. In 1938, eight years after the end of his first marriage, Hamilton wed Janet Frantz to whom he was married for 40 years.
Graduating from Princeton University in 1922 Hamilton was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford. In addition to his undergraduate he also received his master's degree from Princeton becoming professor of English at the university a position he held for decades eventually being made a dean.
In 1923 he married the future well known novelist Anya Seton, the daughter of naturalist and co-founder of Boy Scouts of America Ernest Thompson Seton, with whom he had two children Seton and Pamela. In 1938, eight years after the end of his first marriage, Hamilton wed Janet Frantz to whom he was married for 40 years.
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