'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
Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick between
1861 and
1866, Governor of
Trinidad from
1866 to
1870, Governor of
Mauritius from
1871 to
1874.
Governor of Fiji from
1875 to
1880,
Governor of New Zealand from
1880 to
1883, and finally Governor of
Ceylon from
1883 to
1890.
He was created 1st Baron Stanmore, of Great Stanmore, Middlesex on
August 21,
1893.
External links
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Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''