Biography lord frederic hamilton
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When Lord Frederic Spencer Hamilton was born on 13 October 1856, in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, his father, James Hamilton, was 45 and his mother, Louisa Jane Russell, was 44. He lived in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and London, England, United Kingdom in 1928. He died on 11 August 1928, in St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71, and was buried in Chenies Manor House Cemetery, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Lord Frederick Hamilton
British politician
Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (13 October 1856 – 11 August 1928) was a British aristocrat, Conservative politician, diplomat, and author.[1]
Biography
[edit]Lord Frederick was born in Brighton,[2] the sixth son and thirteenth child of James Hamilton, Marquess of Abercorn and Louisa, Marchioness of Abercorn, who were "long remembered as the most handsome and most distinguished young couple of their generation." His father was created the 1st Duke of Abercorn in 1868. His mother, the daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford, was the half-sister to Prime Minister John Russell.[1]
He was Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service (1877–1884) and Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester South West (1885–1886) and North Tyrone (1892–1895). Lord Frederick also wrote the three-volume set of books, The Days Before Yesterday, Vanished Pomps of Yesterday and Here, There and Everywhere, which were first pub
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Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society (1826–1902)
His ExcellencyThe Most Honourable The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava KP GCB GCSI GCMG GCIE PC | |
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Lord Dufferin in 1873 | |
| In office 13 December 1884 – 10 December 1888 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | The Marquess of Ripon |
| Succeeded by | The Marquess of Lansdowne |
| In office 25 June 1872 – 25 November 1878 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Canadian: Sir John A. Macdonald Alexander Mackenzie British: William Ewart Gladstone The Earl of Beaconsfield |
| Preceded by | The Lord Lisgar |
| Succeeded by | Marquess of Lorne |
| In office 12 December 1868 – 9 August 1872 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Preceded by | Thomas Edward Taylor |
| Succeeded by | Hugh Childers |
| In office 1891–1896 | |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Lytton |
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