Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (13 October 185611 August 1928) was a United Kingdom politician, the sixth son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Russell.

He was Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service (1877–1884) and Member of Parliament for Manchester South West (1884–1886). Lord Frederick also wrote the books "Here, There and Everywhere", "The Days Before Yesterday" and "Vanished Pomps of Yesterday".

While serving as aide-de-camp to Lord Lansdowne, then Governor-General of Canada, in Ottawa, Lord Frederick was the first person to introduce skiing to Canada. [cite book | title=The Days before Yesterday | chapter=IX | first=Lord Frederick Spencer | last=Hamilton | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3827 | accessdate=2006-12-03]

From 1896 to 1900, he was editor of the Pall Mall Magazine. [cite web | url=http://www.maggs.com/title/MO32617.asp | title=The Pall Mall Magazine | accessdate=2006-12-03] He never married and died without children.

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