Lord Frederick Hamilton

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name =

| image = Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton Vanity Fair 1895-02-07.jpg

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| caption = "The Pall Mall Magazine"
Hamilton as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1895

| office1 = Member of Parliament for North Tyrone

| term1 = 1892-1895

| office2 = Member of Parliament for Manchester South West

| term2 = 1885-1886

| party = Conservative

| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|10|13|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Brighton, Sussex

| death_date = {{death date and age|1928|08|11|1856|10|13|df=yes}}

| death_place = Westminster, London

| father = James Hamilton

| mother = Louisa Russell

| relatives =

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File:Skiing at Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, circa 1895.jpg

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (13 October 1856 – 11 August 1928) was a British aristocrat, Conservative politician, diplomat, and author.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Lord Frederick Hamilton – Diplomacy and Travel |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date= 13 August 1928 |page=17 }}

Biography

Lord Frederick was born in Brighton,{{cite news |title= Births |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date=14 October 1856 |page= 1}} the sixth son and thirteenth child of James Hamilton, Marquess of Abercorn and Louisa, Marchioness of Abercorn, who were "long remembered as the most handsome and most distinguished young couple of their generation." His father was created the 1st Duke of Abercorn in 1868. His mother, the daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford, was the half-sister to Prime Minister John Russell.

He was Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service (1877–1884) and Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester South West (1885–1886) and North Tyrone (1892–1895). Lord Frederick also wrote the three-volume set of books, The Days Before Yesterday, Vanished Pomps of Yesterday and Here, There and Everywhere, which were first published in 1920 by Hodder and Stoughton, and known collectively as My Yesterdays. These give vivid, sometimes amusing and always well-written accounts of his early life, diplomatic service, and travels.

While serving as aide-de-camp to Lord Lansdowne, then Governor-General of Canada, in Ottawa, In January 1887, Lord Frederick was the first person to introduce skiing to Canada, using skis he had brought from Russia.{{cite book | title=The Days before Yesterday | chapter=IX | first=Lord Frederick | last=Hamilton | url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3827 | accessdate=2006-12-03}} As he recounts, he used to "slide down the toboggan slides at Ottawa on them, to universal derision". He was told they were "unsuited to Canadian conditions, and would never be popular in Canada".

From 1896 to 1900 he was editor of the Pall Mall Magazine.{{cite web | url=http://www.maggs.com/title/MO32617.asp | title=The Pall Mall Magazine | accessdate=2006-12-03}}

He never married and died without children, aged 71, at 13 Great College Street, Westminster.

Ancestry

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|1= 1. Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

|2= 2. James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn

|3= 3. Lady Louisa Jane Russell

|4= 4. James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton

|5= 5. Harriet Douglas

|6= 6. John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford

|7= 7. Lady Georgina Gordon

|8= 8. John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn

|9= 9. Catherine Copley

|10= 10. The Hon. John Douglas

|11= 11. Lady Frances Lascelles

|12= 12. Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock

|13= 13. Lady Elizabeth Keppel

|14= 14. Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon

|15= 15. Jane Maxwell

|16= 16. Captain The Hon. John Hamilton

|17= 17. Harriet Craggs

|18= 18. Sir Joseph Copley, 1st Baronet

|19= 19. Mary Buller

|20= 20. James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton

|21= 21. Bridget Heathcote

|22= 22. Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood

|23= 23. Anne Chaloner

|24= 24. John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford

|25= 25. The Hon. Gertrude Leveson-Gower

|26= 26. Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle

|27= 27. Lady Anne Lennox

|28= 28. Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon

|29= 29. Lady Catherine Gordon

|30= 30. Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet of Monreith, Wigtownshire

|31= 31. Magdalen Blair

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Works

{{gutenberg|no=60901|name=The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday}}, by Lord Frederic [sic] Hamilton, 1919 * {{gutenberg|no=3827|name=The Days Before Yesterday}}, by Lord Frederic [sic] Hamilton, 1920
{{gutenberg|no=6368|name=Here, There and Everywhere}}, by Lord Frederic [sic] Hamilton, 1921

References

External links

{{Hansard-contribs | lord-frederick-hamilton | Frederick Hamilton }}
{{Gutenberg author |id=1323}}
{{Internet Archive author |sname=Frederick Spencer Hamilton}}
{{Internet Archive author |name=Frederic Spencer Hamilton |dname=Lord Frederic Spencer Hamilton}}
{{cite TIWW |article=Hamilton, Lord Frederick Spencer |page=101 }}
{{LCAuth|no00048268|Lord Frederic Hamilton|11|ue}}

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| title = Member of Parliament for Manchester South West

| years = 1885–1886

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{{succession box

| title = Member of Parliament for North Tyrone

| years = 1892–1895

| before = Lord Ernest William Hamilton

| after = Charles Hare Hemphill

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Category:1856 births

Category:1928 deaths