George Hamilton, S.S.C., was resident at No. 7 from 1892 to 1897. He moved to 24 Pitt Street, where he was living in the house of his step-father Robert Somerville at the time of the 1901 census. He was described as law agent in 1901, and in 1891, before coming to live in Malta Terrace, as “solicitor general clerk”.
George Hamilton was born at Duddingston on 8 August 1862, son James Clarkson Hamilton and Helen Anderson. His father, a clerk in the Colonial Life Assurance company, died in 1866. His mother later married bookseller and stationer, Robert Somerville, and George Hamilton lived with them until after 1901.