Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore

Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon , written between 1870 and 1880

Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore GCMG (born November 26, 1829 in Argyll House , London , England , † January 30, 1912 in Chelsea , London) was a British colonial administrator.

The youngest son of the late Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , he attended after high school at a boarding school , the Trinity College in Cambridge , where he in 1849 Chairman of the Cambridge Union Society was. After his dissertation in 1851, he worked from 1852 to 1855 as the private secretary of his father, the Prime Minister.

In 1861 he went to Canada as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick . From 1866 to 1870 he was governor of Trinidad and Tobago , followed by his tenure as governor of Mauritius (1871 to 1874). He was also governor of Fiji (1875 to 1880), governor of New Zealand (1880 to 1883) and finally governor of Ceylon (1883 to 1890).

On February 18, 1871, he was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George . On February 6, 1898, he became Knight Grand Cross of the same order.

In 1893 he was promoted to Baron Stanmore , of Great Stanmore in the County of Middlesex . The title passed to his eldest son George after his death .

Web links

• Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
• WPN Tyler: Gordon, Arthur Hamilton. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, October 1, 2013, accessed January 8, 2015 . 
• Hon. Arthur Hamilton-Gordon at Hansard (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Knights and Dames: HA-HOR at Leigh Rayment's Peerage

predecessor	Office	successor
Sir Henry Barkly	Governor of Mauritius 1871–1874	Arthur Purves Phayre
Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead	Governor of the Fiji Islands 1877–1880 also High Commissioner of the Western Pacific Territories 1875–1880	Sir William Des Vœux
Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead	Governor of New Zealand 1880–1883	William Jervois
James Robert Longden	Governor of Ceylon 1883–1890	Arthur Elibank Havelock