Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore

Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, GCMG, KJStJ (26 November 1829 – 30 January 1912)^[1] was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator. He had extensive contact with Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

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.^[2] After graduating in 1851, he worked as Assistant Private Secretary to the British Prime Minister (his father) between 1852 and 1855, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Beverley from 1854 to 1857,^[1] before holding a number of colonial governorships:

• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, 1861–1866
• Governor of Trinidad, 1866–1870.
• 11th Governor of Mauritius, 21 Feb 1871 – 18 August 1874^[3]
• Governor of Fiji^[4] from 1875 to 1880
• Governor of New Zealand, 29 November 1880 – 24 June 1882
• Governor of Ceylon, 1883–1890.

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

Works

• William Ewart Gladstone, Baron Arthur Hamilton-Gordon Stanmore (1961). Gladstone-Gordon correspondence, 1851–1896: selections from the private correspondence of a British Prime Minister and a colonial Governor, Volume 51. American Philosophical Society. pp. 116. http://books.google.com/books?id=uEMeAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 2010-06-28. (Volume 51, Issue 4 of new series, American Philosophical Society Volume 51, Part 4 of Transactions Series Volume 51, Part 4 of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society new ser v. 51, no. 4)(Original from the University of California)

References

External references

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Biography at the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography