David Hamilton (diarist)
Encyclopedia
Sir David Hamilton was a Scottish
physician to Queen Anne
, during which he kept a diary.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
physician to Queen Anne
Anne of Great Britain
Anne ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.Anne's Catholic father, James II and VII, was deposed during the...
, during which he kept a diary.
Further reading
- Philip Roberts (ed.), The Diary of Sir David Hamilton, 1709–1714 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975).