Charles Iain Hamilton is a naval historian at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Early life.
Hamilton took a BA at Keele University and a PhD at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1974 with a thesis on “The Royal Navy, Seapower, and the Screwship of the Line, 1845-1860”.
Academic career.
He joined the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 1982 as a lecturer in history and was promoted to associate professor. His particular research interests are in the British and French navies of the nineteenth century, naval administration, and the links between signals intelligence and naval operations during the Second World War.
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External sources.
•Biography on the University of Witwatersrand website