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Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore
Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore (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.
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Preceded by: Sir Hercules Robinson |
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Succeeded by: Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois |
Categories: 1829 births | 1912 deaths | Governors of Fiji | Governors-General of New Zealand | Presidents of the Cambridge Union Society | Canadian historical figures | Lieutenant Governors of New Brunswick
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