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Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore GCMG KStJ (26 November 1829 – 30 January 1912) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator. He had extensive contact with Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
GORDON, ARTHUR HAMILTON, 1st Baron STANMORE, lieutenant governor; b. 26 Nov. 1829 at Argyll House, London, England, youngest son of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and Harriet Douglas, widow of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton; m.
Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, primer barón Stanmore GCMG KStJ (26 de noviembre de 1829 – 30 de enero de 1912) fue un político y administrador colonial del Partido Liberal Británico. Tuvo amplio contacto con el primer ministro William Ewart Gladstone.
Baron Stanmore, of Great Stanmore in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1893 for the colonial administrator the Hon. Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon. He was the youngest son of the former Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (see Marquess of Aberdeen and ...
Arthur hamilton gordon was thirty-one when he received his first appointment as a colonial governor. His tastes and habits, his early training and associations, had given him “a broader and more statesmanlike way of looking at things than most Governors possess. …”¹ He had excellent natural abilities and a strong desire to use them for good.
This pamphlet provides a short description of a tour in Fiji made by Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, the first governor of the British colony of the islands. It was presented to Queen Victoria in December 1875, arriving in the Royal Library in November 1876.
He was the 1st High Commissioner to the Western Pacific 1877-82. Sir Arthur was raised to the peerage in 1893 as Baron Stanmore. In his retirement, he undertook literary and public work, and was a member of various House of Lords committees.
