Post by harrybuckle on Apr 26, 2021 19:19:30 GMT
Sad to report the death of popular former Rovers forward Ian Hamilton who died yesterday.
IAN HAMILTON
Born 12.9.1940 Bristol Died 25.4.2021 Bristol
Size and Position 5’ 9”; 11 st Inside Forward
Rovers League Début: 6.12.58 v Charlton Athletic
Career: Thornbury; 1956 Bristol Rovers (professional, January 1958) [149,60]; 14.9.67 Exeter City (loan) [4,1]; 30.7.68 Newport County [13+2,2]; 1970 Weston-super-Mare; 1972 Welton Rovers; 1974 Weston-super-Mare (assistant manager).
Only one man has scored a League hat-trick for Rovers and ended up on the losing side; inside-forward Ian Hamilton’s goals proved in vain at Southend in October 1964, as Rovers lost 6-3; after giving the Pirates a fourth-minute lead, his goals after 48 and 82 minutes were mere consolation strikes. “Chico” Hamilton, a qualified tool-maker by trade, scored freely for Rovers, his 21 goals in 33 League games in 1964-65 being a particularly impressive return and he hit four goals in the League Cup-tie with Shrewsbury Town in September 1963. Known as “Sir Laurence” for his propensity for winning penalty decisions, Hamilton scored two headers at Halifax in May 1963, as Rovers won 3-2 to preserve their Third Division status and hit a seven-minute hat-trick for Rovers’ reserve side in January 1968. His solitary goal for Exeter came in a 3-1 defeat at Doncaster in October 1967, and he later helped Welton Rovers secure the Western League title for 1973-74. The son of John Hamilton, a Rovers wing-half in the 1929-30 season, and Hilda Clutterbuck, who had married in July 1931, Ian Hamilton was on Rovers’ books along with his brother David, a former Filton Methodists and Thornbury Town forward who died tragically young in a bungalow fire at Olveston in November 1961. Ian Hamilton, who suffered a heart attack in 2006, worked as an airframe fitter at Rolls Royce in Bristol until his retirement in 1994 and has followed the English cricket side around the globe, watching them play in Australia, Barbados and South Africa. He and his wife Betty, who have a son, a daughter and grandchildren, have lived since 1976 at Ridgeway, near Almondsbury. Until in recent years he had been living in a nursing home after suffering dementia.
IAN HAMILTON
Born 12.9.1940 Bristol Died 25.4.2021 Bristol
Size and Position 5’ 9”; 11 st Inside Forward
Rovers League Début: 6.12.58 v Charlton Athletic
Career: Thornbury; 1956 Bristol Rovers (professional, January 1958) [149,60]; 14.9.67 Exeter City (loan) [4,1]; 30.7.68 Newport County [13+2,2]; 1970 Weston-super-Mare; 1972 Welton Rovers; 1974 Weston-super-Mare (assistant manager).
Only one man has scored a League hat-trick for Rovers and ended up on the losing side; inside-forward Ian Hamilton’s goals proved in vain at Southend in October 1964, as Rovers lost 6-3; after giving the Pirates a fourth-minute lead, his goals after 48 and 82 minutes were mere consolation strikes. “Chico” Hamilton, a qualified tool-maker by trade, scored freely for Rovers, his 21 goals in 33 League games in 1964-65 being a particularly impressive return and he hit four goals in the League Cup-tie with Shrewsbury Town in September 1963. Known as “Sir Laurence” for his propensity for winning penalty decisions, Hamilton scored two headers at Halifax in May 1963, as Rovers won 3-2 to preserve their Third Division status and hit a seven-minute hat-trick for Rovers’ reserve side in January 1968. His solitary goal for Exeter came in a 3-1 defeat at Doncaster in October 1967, and he later helped Welton Rovers secure the Western League title for 1973-74. The son of John Hamilton, a Rovers wing-half in the 1929-30 season, and Hilda Clutterbuck, who had married in July 1931, Ian Hamilton was on Rovers’ books along with his brother David, a former Filton Methodists and Thornbury Town forward who died tragically young in a bungalow fire at Olveston in November 1961. Ian Hamilton, who suffered a heart attack in 2006, worked as an airframe fitter at Rolls Royce in Bristol until his retirement in 1994 and has followed the English cricket side around the globe, watching them play in Australia, Barbados and South Africa. He and his wife Betty, who have a son, a daughter and grandchildren, have lived since 1976 at Ridgeway, near Almondsbury. Until in recent years he had been living in a nursing home after suffering dementia.
