page_title: George FitzGeorge Hamilton
section_title: Childhood and education
hierarchical_section_title: George FitzGeorge Hamilton / Childhood and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (left), his son Sir Adolphus FitzGeorge (right), his granddaughter Olga FitzGeorge (center), and his great-grandson George Edward Archibald Augustus FitzGeorge-Hamilton (center), photographed in 1900.
context_page_description: George Edward Archibald Augustus FitzGeorge Hamilton was a British Army officer during World War I and a distant relative of the British royal family. He was the only son of Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet and Olga FitzGeorge, and was the heir to the Hamilton baronetcies of Trebinshun House and Marlborough House.
  FitzGeorge Hamilton's godparents were his great-grandfather, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke and Duchess of York. His parents divorced in 1902, and during his adolescence he attended Hawtreys, Winchester College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In 1917, FitzGeorge Hamilton was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, the regiment in which his great-grandfather, the Duke of Cambridge, also served. He served in World War I and was killed during an aerial bombing raid in Warlincourt-lès-Pas, France, in 1918. Following his father's death in 1939, the Hamilton baronetcies of Trebinshun House and Marlborough House passed to FitzGeorge Hamilton's uncle Sir Thomas Sydney Perceval Hamilton.
context_section_description: FitzGeorge Hamilton resided with his parents at Rotherhill House, west of Midhurst in Sussex. His parents divorced in 1902, and FitzGeorge Hamilton's father was assigned as his legal guardian. FitzGeorge Hamilton's mother remarried in 1905 to Robert Charlton Lane, and his father remarried in 1906 to Algorta Child.
  FitzGeorge Hamilton received his early education at Hawtreys (also known as St Michael's School) in Westgate-on-Sea, and then he attended Winchester College in Winchester from 1912 until 1915. Following the death of his paternal grandfather in October 1915, FitzGeorge Hamilton's father inherited the Hamilton baronetcies of Trebinshun House and Marlborough House and became titled as Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th and 3rd Baronet; thus, FitzGeorge Hamilton became the baronetcies' heir apparent. Because FitzGeorge Hamilton had always intended to join the British Army, he entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1916, following the completion of his studies at Winchester College. FitzGeorge Hamilton was among the college's successful examination candidates.
caption: FitzGeorge Hamilton seated on the lap of his mother Olga FitzGeorge (center) with his great-grandfather Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (left) and his grandfather Sir Adolphus FitzGeorge (right) in 1900.
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