Ask about Hamilton and most residents will ask if you mean the city or the parish.However it’s not only Bermuda that chose the name as a landmark as proven in a new coffee book highlighting Hamilton destinations the world over.‘Hamiltons of the World’ was edited by Tim Brooker of the East Hamilton Rotary Club in Hamilton, New Zealand as a fundraiser for the club.“I was surprised by how many Hamiltons there were until I was contacted by Mr Brooker,” said Greg Smith, secretary of the Hamilton Rotary Club in Bermuda. “Interestingly, Hamilton Rotary Club in New Zealand was founded in 1924, the same year that our club was founded. So we will be celebrating our 90th birthdays in 2014.”Text about Bermuda was written by Rotary Club historian George Cook, with photos taken by David Rowntree.Bermuda’s Hamilton Parish was named after James Hamilton, the second Marquis of Hamilton, after he purchased it from Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford.It was previously been called Bedford Parish. The Marquis invested in the Bermuda Company to colonise it from 1615. He died in 1625 and was buried in Hamilton, South Lankarkshire, Scotland.The City of Hamilton was founded in 1793 and named after Bermuda’s Irish-born Governor, Captain Henry Hamilton. The city became Bermuda’s capital in 1815.Unfortunately, there are some factual errors in ‘Hamiltons of the World’.Hamilton Parish’s entry reads “Hamilton Parish, Bermuda, 1608”, which would mean the parish was founded a year before the Sea Venture arrived.Mr Brooker told The Royal Gazette that putting the book together was an education.“I think the strangest Hamiltons were the ones in the Czech Republic, named after Maximilian Reichsgraf Von Hamilton, Bishop of Olomouc, and Port Hamilton, now called Geomun-do, in South Korea, named after Admiral William Alexander Baillie-Hamilton,” he said. “It would be great to visit all the Hamiltons, especially Bermuda. However, I think it is highly unlikely to happen.”Mr Brooker has been a member of the Rotary Club, first in the United Kingdom and then in New Zealand, for 12 years.In the forward to the book, he wrote: “When I first e-mailed 17 clubs in ten Hamiltons, how little I knew where the journey would take me. Ultimately, I located over 120 Hamiltons on five continents and while some are simply listed at the end of each section I have managed, with the help largely of Rotary Clubs around the world, to include around 80 Hamiltons in the main text. What a story ‘Hamiltons of the World’ has turned out to be.”Find ‘Hamiltons of the World’ at the Bermuda Bookstore on Queen Street.