Cosmo Hamilton
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playwright
Playwright
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and novelist. He took his mother's maiden name when he began to write. Hamilton was married twice: First to Beryl Faber, née Beryl Crossley Smith, the sister of C. Aubrey Smith, who died in 1912, and then to Julia Bolton, the former wife of playwright Guy Bolton
Guy Bolton
Guy Reginald Bolton was a British-American playwright and writer of musical comedies. Born in England and educated in France and the U.S., he trained as an architect but turned to writing. Bolton preferred working in collaboration with others, principally the English writers P. G...
. He was the brother of writers A. Hamilton Gibbs
A. Hamilton Gibbs
A. Hamilton Gibbs was a novelist. He was the brother of Cosmo Hamilton and Sir Philip Gibbs.His novels include The Persistent Lovers, Soundings and Chances ....
and Sir Philip Gibbs
Philip Gibbs
Sir Philip Gibbs was an English journalist and novelist who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Two of his siblings were also writers, A...
.
His London musicals include The Catch of the Season
The Catch of the Season
The Catch of the Season is an Edwardian musical comedy by Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton, with music by Herbert Haines and Evelyn Baker and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor, based on the fairy tale Cinderella...
(1904), The Belle of Mayfair
The Belle of Mayfair
The Belle of Mayfair is a musical comedy composed by Leslie Stuart with a book by Basil Hood, Charles Brookfield and Cosmo Hamilton. The story is inspired by the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet....
(1906), The Beauty of Bath
The Beauty of Bath
The Beauty of Bath is a musical comedy with a book by Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton, lyrics by C. H. Taylor and music by Herbert Haines; additional songs were provided by Jerome Kern , F. Clifford Harris and P. G. Wodehouse . The story concerns a young woman from a noble family, who falls in...
(1906). He then wrote a number of Broadway shows, and many screenplays.
Hamilton wrote dozens of novels, averaging a novel per year most of his adult life. His novels include:
- His Majesty, the King: A Romantic Love Chase of the Seventeenth Century (1926) ISBN 978-0548024188
- Who cares? a story of adolescence (1919) ISBN 978-1406925258
- The Rustle of Silk (1922)
- Two kings and other romances (1917)
- Plain brown (1909)
- A plea for the younger generation (1913)
- The door that has no key (1913)
- The Sins of the Children (1916)
During the First World War
World War I
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Hamilton was a lieutenant
Lieutenant
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in the Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Naval Air Service
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.