Aidé, HAMILTON, English poet and novelist, was born in 1830 at Paris, the son of an Armenian and of a daughter of Admiral Sir George Collier. He served seven years in the British army, and then settling down in the New Forest, devoted himself to literature. Among his poems are Eleonore (1856), and Songs without Music (1882); among his novels, Rita (1859), The Marstons (1868), and Passages in the Life of a Lady (1887).
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