Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (13 October 1856 – 11 August 1928) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, the sixth son and thirteenth child of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane 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 Ltd, London. These give vivid, sometimes amusing and always well-written accounts of his early life, life in the 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.[1] 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.[2] He never married and died without children.
Ancestry[]
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Works[]
- The Days Before Yesterday at Project Gutenberg, by Lord Frederick Hamilton, 1921 or later, as per preface
- The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday at Project Gutenberg, by Lord Frederic [sic] Hamilton,1921
- Here, There and Everywhere at Project Gutenberg, by Lord Frederic [sic] Hamilton, 1921
References[]
- ^ Hamilton, Lord Frederick. "IX". The Days before Yesterday. Retrieved 3 December 2006.
- ^ "The Pall Mall Magazine". Retrieved 3 December 2006.
External links[]
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- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Frederick Hamilton
- Works by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton at Internet Archive
- Works by or about Lord Frederic Spencer Hamilton at Internet Archive
- Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource. . . Dublin:
- Lord Frederic Hamilton at Library of Congress Authorities, with 11 catalogue records
- 1856 births
- 1928 deaths
- Irish Conservative Party MPs
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tyrone constituencies (1801–1922)
- Younger sons of dukes
- UK MPs 1885–1886
- UK MPs 1892–1895
- Irish (UK) MP stubs
- Conservative MP for England, 1850s birth stubs