Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore

Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore GCMG KJStJ (November 26, 1829 – January 30, 1912). was a British colonial Governor.

The youngest son of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, he was educated privately and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1849. After graduating in 1851, he worked as Assistant Private Secretary to the British Prime Minister (his father) between 1852 and 1855.

He was created 1st Baron Stanmore, of Great Stanmore, Middlesex on August 21, 1893.

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Political offices
Preceded by Sir John Henry Manners-Sutton	Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick 1861–1866	Succeeded by Sir Charles Hastings Doyle
Preceded by E.E. Bushworth (acting)	Governor of Trinidad 1866–1870	Succeeded by James Robert Longden
Preceded by Sir Henry Barkly	Governor of Mauritius 1871–1874	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Purves Phayre
Preceded by Sir Hercules Robinson	Governor of Fiji 1875–1880	Succeeded by Sir William Des Vœux
Preceded by Sir Hercules Robinson	Governors of New Zealand 1880–1883	Succeeded by Sir William Francis Jervois
Preceded by James Robert Longden	Governor of Ceylon 1883–1890	Succeeded by Arthur Elibank Havelock
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Stanmore 1893–1912	Succeeded by George Hamilton-Gordon

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