Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore

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The Right Honourable Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore GCMG KJStJ (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.

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Preceded by: Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton	Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick 1861–1866	Succeeded by: Sir Charles Hastings Doyle
Preceded by: E.E. Bushworth (acting)	Governor of Trinidad 1866–1870	Succeeded by: James Robert Longden
Preceded by: Sir Henry Barkly	Governor of Mauritius 1871–1874	Succeeded by: Sir Arthur Purves Phayre
Preceded by: Sir Hercules Robinson	Governor of Fiji 1875–1880	Succeeded by: Sir William Des Voeux
Preceded by: Sir Hercules Robinson	Governors of New Zealand 1880–1883	Succeeded by: Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois
Preceded by: James Robert Longden	Governor of Ceylon 1883–1890	Succeeded by: Arthur Elibank Havelock