Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

Frederick Spencer Hamilton ( * October 13, 1856; † August 11, 1928 ) was a British diplomat, politician of the Conservative Party and writer. He was the sixth son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn ( 1811-1885 ) and Lady Louisa Jane Russell ( 1812-1905 ).

Life

From 1877 to 1884 Lord Frederick was Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service. In 1885 he was awarded by the constituency Manchester, South West a seat in Parliament, but was initially only seven months this member.

In 1886 he succeeded his brother in law, Lord Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada 1883-1888, as his aide- de-camp ( personal aide ) to Ottawa. In 1887, Lord Frederick led Canada to ski one, which he had observed on a diplomatic mission in Russia for the first time.

In 1892 he won the constituency of North Tyrone in Northern Ireland, which he held until 1895. From 1896 to 1900 he was editor of the magazine " Pall Mall Magazine", which developed under his leadership to a successful and important periodical.

Lord Frederick summed up his memories of private travel and diplomatic missions that took him to Berlin, Helgoland, Brunswick, St Petersburg, Lisbon and Buenos Aires, in three autobiographies together, which he published in the 1920s. He never married and left no children.

Works

• The Days Before Yesterday, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1920
• Here, There and Everywhere, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1921
• Vanished pomp of Yesterday, published by George H. Doran, New York 1921