Robert Hamilton
Robert Winslow Hamilton was born March 26, 1911 in Liverpool, England to parents Eliza Ann (Craig) and Thomas Winslow Hamilton.A member of the Students’ Council while studying at the University of Alberta, Hamilton earned a BCom in 1931. That same year, he was admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants and received a T. Eaton Co Gold Medal. The recipient of an Institute of Chartered Accountants Prize, Hamilton was named a Fellow of the Institute in 1952.
Chairman of the University of Alberta Hospital Board in 1948, Hamilton was a sessional instructor of accounting at the University of Alberta from 1936-48.
An alderman with the City of Edmonton from 1943-45, Hamilton was also president of the Edmonton Club and of the Optimist Club. Between 1933-56, he was an accountant and partner in Winspear, Hamilton, Anderson & Co. The director of 30 companies, Hamilton was a member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (1944-49) and president of the Alberta Institute of Chartered Accountants and of the Canadian Council of Chartered Accountants. He was a consultant in a public inquiry case into the Turner Valley Pipe Line (1944-47), and a consultant with Canadian Western Natural Gas Co (1949), Northwestern Utilities (1951) and the McNally Commission (1955).
Hamilton married Jean Christian McKinnon in 1936; they had two daughters, Katherine Mary and Elizabeth Jean.
Hamilton passed way December 8, 1956 in British Columbia. The Winslow and Jean Hamilton Memorial Pool in the Physical Education Building at the University of Alberta is named in honour of Hamilton and his wife.