George Cecil Hans Hamilton was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and at King's College, Cambridge where he studied law. In 1910 he was called to the bar and practiced in Manchester up until the First World War in which he served as a lieutenant at Khartoum [Sudan], Egypt and in the Gallipoli landings. Hamilton then joined the Close Brothers banking firm. In 1940, at the age of 52, he was comissioned in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) and trained assault troops, advised on the North Africa landings and planned the Normandy landings during the Second World War. After the war Hamilton worked as Chairman and then Director of the Expanded Metal Company until his retirement in 1956. He married Miss Eva Marjorie Hornby in 1916. Hamilton died on 1 October 1960.