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John Fane Charles Hamilton
British navy commander (1820–1864) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Fane Charles Hamilton (28 September 1820 – 29 April 1864) was a British naval officer, after whom the city of Hamilton, New Zealand, is named. A statue of him stood in the centre of Hamilton from 2013 to 2020.
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