Sir Archibald Hamilton

Sir Charles Edward Archibald Watkin Hamilton, 5th Baronet (10 December 1876 – 18 March 1939) was a British aristocrat, a lieutenant in the Royal Defence Corps, who in 1915 inherited his father's two baronetcies, of Trebinshun in Breconshire and of Marlborough House in Hampshire.¹

He converted to Islam on 20 December 1923 and was known from that year as Sir Abdullah Hamilton; the notice of his conversion appeared in The Islamic Review, the journal of the Woking Muslim Mission, whose archive still lists him among its converts — a mission connection that names no school for him, and none is settled here.¹² In his own words, the 'beauty and the simple purity of Islam' had always appealed to him, and he found neither the Church of Rome nor the Church of England of real use. His third wife Lilian also converted, taking the name Miriam. He died in 1939 and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery beside Lord Headley, the two having been 'close comrades-in-arms in the cause of Islam'.¹