Lord George Hamilton

The Right Honourable Lord George Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP

First Lord of the Admiralty
In office 24 June 1885 – 28 January 1886
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Marquess of Salisbury
Preceded by	The Earl of Northbrook
Succeeded by	The Marquess of Ripon
In office 9 August 1886 – 11 August 1892
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Marquess of Salisbury
Preceded by	The Marquess of Ripon
Succeeded by	The Earl Spencer
Secretary of State for India
In office 4 July 1895 – 9 October 1903
Monarch	Victoria Edward VII
Prime Minister	The Marquess of Salisbury Arthur Balfour
Preceded by	Henry Fowler
Succeeded by	Hon. St John Brodrick
Personal details
Born	17 December 1845 (1845-12-17)
Died	22 September 1927 (1927-09-23)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Lady Maud Lascelles (1846-1938)
Alma mater	None

Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP (17 December 1845 – 22 September 1927) was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1 Background
2 Political career
3 Other public appointments
4 Family and children
5 Ancestry
6 References
7 External links

Background

Hamilton was the third son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa, daughter of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, and was educated at Harrow. He served with the Rifle Brigade and Coldstream Guards, achieving the rank of lieutenant.

Political career

Hamilton was Member of Parliament for Middlesex between 1868 and 1885 and for Ealing between 1885 and 1906. He served under Benjamin Disraeli as Under-Secretary of State for India from 1874 to 1878 and as Vice-President of the Committee on Education from 1878 to 1880 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1878. He entered the cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty under Lord Salisbury in 1885, a post he held until 1886 and again between 1886 and 1892. In 1894 he was elected as Chairman of the London School Board, standing down after one year when the Unionists won the general election and he became Secretary of State for India under Salisbury, which he remained until 1903, the last year under the premiership of Arthur Balfour. In 1903 he was appointed a GCSI. In 1916 he was part of the Mesopotamia Commission of Inquiry.

Other public appointments

For a number of years, Hamilton was a member of the board of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) which ran the majority of London's Underground lines. He served as the company's chairman between 1915 and 1919, following the resignation of Sir Edgar Speyer in 1915.^[1]^[2]

Hamilton also held the honorary posts of Captain of Deal Castle (1899-1923) and Major of Deal (1909) and received the degree of honorary LLD from Glasgow University and of honorary DCL from Oxford University. He was also a Justice of Peace for Middlesex and Westminster.

He was also President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1910 to 1912 and from 1915 to 1916. ^[3]

Family and children

Hamilton married Lady Maud Caroline, daughter of Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood, in 1871. They had three sons:

Ronald James Hamilton OBE (1872–1958), who fought in the First World War, was wounded and in 1919 invested an OBE. He was awarded with the decoration of the Order of the Crown (Belgium). He served as First Secretary in the Diplomatic Service. In 1915 he married Florence Marguerite (Sarah Brooke) Hanna (d. 1959). They had one daughter:
- Maud Sarah Hamilton (1917–1995). In 1939 she married Squadron Leader Count Manfred Maria Edmund Ralph Beckett Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, DFC, DSO, MC, RAF (1913–1962). With him she had one son and one daughter.
Major Anthony George Hamilton (1874–1936), who fought in the First World War and gained the rank of Major in the service of the East Kent Regiment. He died unmarried and without issue.
Vice-Admiral Robert Cecil Hamilton (1882–1947), who fought in the First World War. In 1911 he married Edith Maud Paley (d. 1967), daughter of the barrister Algernon Herbert Paley.

Hamilton died in September 1927, aged 81. His wife survived him by eleven years and died in April 1938.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lord George Hamilton

16. Captain The Hon. John Hamilton

8. John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn

17. Harriet Craggs

4. James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton

18. Sir Joseph Copley, 1st Baronet

9. Catherine Copley

19. Mary Buller

2. James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn

20. James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton

10. The Hon. John Douglas

21. Bridget Heathcote

5. Harriet Douglas

22. Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood

11. Lady Frances Lascelles

23. Anne Chaloner

1. Lord George Hamilton

24. John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford

12. Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock

25. The Hon. Gertrude Leveson-Gower

6. John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford

26. Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle

13. Lady Elizabeth Keppel

27. Lady Anne Lennox

3. Lady Louisa Jane Russell

28. Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon

14. Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon

29. Lady Catherine Gordon

7. Lady Georgina Gordon

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

15. Jane Maxwell

31. Magdalen Blair

References

^ "New Chairman of the Underground". The Times (40858): p. 13. 19 May 1915. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/984/131/69299049w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS219219123&dyn=59!xrn_4_0_CS219219123&hst_1?sw_aep=kccl. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
^ "Sir A. Stanley On Railway Services". The Times (42114): p. 12. 31 May 1919. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/984/131/69299049w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS202575039&dyn=54!xrn_64_0_CS202575039&hst_1?sw_aep=kccl. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
^ "Royal Statistical Society Presidents". Royal Statistical Society. http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=1078. Retrieved 5 August 2010.

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External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord George Hamilton
CricketArchive: Lord George Hamilton

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Enfieldand Henry Labouchère	Member of Parliament for Middlesex 1868 – 1885 With: Viscount Enfield 1857–1874 Octavius Edward Coope 1874–1885	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Ealing 1885 – 1906	Succeeded by Sir Herbert Nield
Political offices
Preceded by M. E. Grant Duff	Under-Secretary of State for India 1874 – 1878	Succeeded by Hon. Edward Stanhope
Preceded by Viscount Sandon	Vice-President of the Committee on Education 1878–1880	Succeeded by A. J. Mundella
Preceded by The Earl of Northbrook	First Lord of the Admiralty 1885 – 1886	Succeeded by The Marquess of Ripon
Preceded by The Marquess of Ripon	First Lord of the Admiralty 1886 – 1892	Succeeded by The Earl Spencer
Preceded by Henry Fowler	Secretary of State for India 1895 – 1903	Succeeded by Hon. St John Brodrick
Government offices
Preceded by Joseph Diggle	Chairman of the London School Board 1894 – 1895	Succeeded by The Marquess of Londonderry
Business positions
Preceded by Sir Edgar Speyer	Chairman, Underground Electric Railways Company of London 1915-1919	Succeeded by Sir Albert Stanley
Academic offices
Preceded by Jervoise Athelstane Baines	President of the Royal Statistical Society 1910–912	Succeeded by F.Y. Edgeworth
Preceded by Reginald Welby	President of the Royal Statistical Society 1915–1916	Succeeded by Bernard Mallet

Cabinet of Prime Minister The Marquess of Salisbury (July 1885 – February 1886)

Prime Minister Foreign Secretary Leader of the House of Lords	The Marquess of Salisbury (1885–1886)

First Lord of the Treasury	The Earl of Iddesleigh (1885–1886)

Lord Chancellor	The Lord Halsbury (1885–1886)

Lord President of the Council	The Viscount Cranbrook (1885–1886)

Lord Privy Seal	The Earl of Harrowby (1885–1886)

Home Secretary	Sir Richard Cross (1885–1886)

Secretary of State for the Colonies	Sir Frederick Stanley (1885–1886)

Secretary of State for War	William Henry Smith (1885–1886) • The Viscount Cranbrook (1886)

Secretary of State for India	Lord Randolph Churchill (1885–1886)

First Lord of the Admiralty	Lord George Hamilton (1885–1886)

Chancellor of the Exchequer Leader of the House of Commons	Sir Michael Hicks Beach (1885–1886)

President of the Board of Trade	The Duke of Richmond (1885) • Edward Stanhope (1885–1886)

Chief Secretary for Ireland	William Henry Smith (1886)

Postmaster General	Lord John Manners (1885–1886)

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland	The Earl of Carnarvon (1885–1886)

Lord Chancellor of Ireland	The Lord Ashbourne (1885–1886)

Secretary for Scotland	The Duke of Richmond (1885–1886)

Vice President of the Council	Edward Stanhope (1885)

Persondata
Name	Hamilton, George
Alternative names
Short description	First Lord of the Admiralty, Politician
Date of birth	17 December 1845
Place of birth
Date of death	22 September 1927
Place of death