Biography lord frederic hamilton

When Lord Frederic Spencer Hamilton was born on 13 October 1856, in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, his father, James Hamilton, was 45 and his mother, Louisa Jane Russell, was 44. He lived in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and London, England, United Kingdom in 1928. He died on 11 August 1928, in St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71, and was buried in Chenies Manor House Cemetery, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.

British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society (1826–1902)

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (21 June 1826 – 12 February 1902), was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society. In his youth he was a popular figure in the court of Queen Victoria, and became well known to the public after publishing a best-selling account of his travels in the North Atlantic.

He is now best known as one of the most successful public servants of his time. His long career in public service began as a

British politician

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (13 October 1856 – 11 August 1928) was a British aristocrat, Conservative politician, diplomat, and author.

Biography

Lord Frederick was born in Brighton, the sixth son and thirteenth child of James Hamilton, Marquess of Abercorn and Louisa, Marchioness of Abercorn, who were "long remembered as the most handsome and most distinguished young couple of their generation." His father was created the 1st Duke of Abercorn in 1868. His mother, the daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford, was the half-sister to Prime Minister John 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, and known collectively as My Yesterdays. These give vivid, sometimes amusing and always well-written accounts of his early life, 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. 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.

He never married and died without children, aged 71, at 13 Great College Street, Westminster.

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