About
Robert Gary Dodds is completing a major historical biographical work due to being published in late January 2022 .
A USA International Film Festival has commissioned a short stage-play to be performed on their festival's opening gala night in January!
He is known as someone who has a quick wit and a sense of humor. As a published author of the biography, “Lady C - The Lioness Unleashed” (A biography of Lady Colin Campbell, Author & UK, TV celebrity), he is evolving into a serious writer of biographies and historical research. He is adept at assessing and reading people and asking intuitive questions that uncover the facts that make a great story.
Born in England of earlier Scottish and Cornish heritage, he married into one of Jamaica’s old families with Scottish roots and retained extensive contacts globally. Having worked with charities wherever they have lived, he currently sits on the Global Advisory Council of the Akilah Women’s Institute of Rwanda.
He is at ease in almost all cultures, having lived with his wife, Mary, of 43-years in Europe, the Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, and North America. He’s conducted work in the West Indies and Latin America, and he’s equally at home in Qatar’s empty desert quarter with Bedouin tribespeople or the lush Blue Mountains of Jamaica with old friends. Yet he loves nothing better than being with his grandchildren, children, wife, and three miniature Schnauzers in North Carolina, where they retired from their international careers in December 2014.
Spelling American style:
The author has lived in or worked for American companies, the last 20-years and has transitioned a long-time ago into using Americanized English spelling rather than British English. He begs his non-American English language reader’s understanding.
As British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill said,
“The Americans and British are one people separated only by a common language.”
Featured Work
The Life & Times ofAlexander Hamilton. Two apples that fell from the same tree.
Foreword by:
His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, and Brandon
Chief of Clan Hamilton and the Premier Peer of Scotland.
In this book, the author writes about two apples falling from the same family tree. Both Alexander Hamiltons share West Indian and Scottish heritage, and both stem from the first-named Hamilton, born in England in 1185, as I also do.
He writes absorbing stories of dozens of famous Hamiltons over eight centuries, and we’ll read an abridged journey of several of their lives and how many affected Scottish and British history. The author includes General Claude Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley, and Abercorn, a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, whose heirs became the earls of Abercorn; two of his brother’s heirs became the Earl of Arran and Duke of Hamilton. We’ll read of Alec Hamilton’s great-uncle, General Sir Ian Hamilton, who fought in both the Boer wars and World War One and was Rudyard Kipling’s friend and Sir Winston Churchill’s lifetime chum. Winston wrote a book on him entitled Ian Hamilton’s March, published in 1900.
The author writes an excellent summary of his other Alexander Hamilton’s life, a Founding Father of America born in 1770 on Nevis, in the West Indies. He also unearthed a high-ranking British Hamilton, who fought in the American Revolutionary War on opposite sides of the future Hamilton, Founding Father. Finally, he unfolds the “modern-day” Alexander Hamilton’s life and times; born in Scotland in 1932, he served in The Gordon Highlanders Regiment in Malaya and lived in Jamaica from 1954 until he sadly died Easter Sunday 2020. This Hamilton and his maternal ancestors’ stories may well read as a history of Jamaica itself, in the same way, many often say, that the Hamilton family history is one of Scotland itself.
I am delighted to see this book published and hope you enjoy reading it.
His Grace Alexander Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, the 16th Duke of Hamilton, and 13th Duke of Brandon
Other Works
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Lady C - The Lioness Unleashed
2016
