Richard Hamilton (mining)
Richard "Dick" Hamilton (6 May 1855 or 29 April 1855 – 16 March 1943) was a mine manager at Boulder, Western Australia. History. Hamilton was born in Williamstown, Victoria, the son of Mary Isobel Hamilton, née Cameron (1833 – 26 Jan 1880) and Henry West Hamilton, originally from Ballymoney, Ireland and proprietor of the Pegleg Hotel, Pegleg Gully, near modern Maldon. They had a daughter on 14 August 1856. The father died on 12 July 1858, aged 30, and Mary Hamilton, the daughter, died of diphtheria at the Pegleg Hotel on 4 April 1860. On 1 January 1863 the  widow Hamilton married Frederick Clark, who adopted her son. Hamilton was educated at the Corporate High School and at the School of Mines, Bendigo, and gained practical experience on the Victorian goldfields. Early in the 1880s he was appointed manager of the Honnali gold mine in Mysore, India. Three years later he returned to Victoria and took control of the Peel River Proprietary gold mines in New South Wales. He then spent some years as a fruitgrower at Mooroopna, Victoria near Shepparton in the Goulburn Valley. He left for the US in 1893 to manage the Cañada del Oro (Canyon  of Gold) Company's mine in Arizona, leaving his wife to manage the orchard. In 1896 he was appointed general manager of the Great Boulder Mine and returned to Australia. Katie joined him the following year. On his retirement in 1927 the company appointing him its local director in recognition of his 40 years' service. The Hamiltons had a home at 23 Leake street, Peppermint Grove, but in later years he lived in Cottesloe. He died in a private hospital, Perth, a month short of his 89th birthday, after some years of failing health, and was buried at the Karrakatta  cemetery. Hamilton Street, Boulder, Western Australia, was named for him. Family. Hamilton married Kate Muriel "Kit" "Katie" Clark ( – 23 July 1926) on 30 July 1888. Clark was a daughter of John Hall Clark (c. 1831 – 26 May 1875) of Warwick, England, and niece of Hamilton's stepfather Frederick Clark JP (c. 1835 – 4 July 1918). They had two sons and one daughter: