Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

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Skiiers in Ottawa, 1895. Lord Frederick Hamilton introduced the sport of skiing to Canada in 1887.

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (13 October 1856 – 11 August 1928) was a United Kingdom politician, the sixth son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Russell.

He was Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service (1877–1884) and Member of Parliament for Manchester South West (1884–1886). Lord Frederick also wrote the books "Here, There and Everywhere", "The Days Before Yesterday" and "Vanished Pomps of Yesterday".

While serving as aide-de-camp to Lord Lansdowne, then Governor-General of Canada, in Ottawa, Lord Frederick was the first person to introduce skiing to Canada.^[1]

From 1896 to 1900, he was editor of the Pall Mall Magazine.^[2] He never married and died without children.

[edit] Works

• The Days Before Yesterday
• Here, There and Everywhere

[edit] References

1. ^ Hamilton, Lord Frederick Spencer. “IX”, The Days before Yesterday. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
2. ^ The Pall Mall Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.

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