Hamilton, WILLIAM GERARD (1729–96), earned the epithet of 'single-speech Hamilton' by a speech made in the House of Commons, November 13, 1754, as M.P. for Petersfield in Hants—not quite the only speech he ever made in the House. For twenty years he was Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, and was by some regarded as the author of the letters of Junius (q.v.)
Hamilton, WILLIAM GERARD
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 532
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