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Arthur Hamilton Gordon


Hon. Sir / Right Hon. Lord
Arthur Hamilton Gordon
KCMG / GCMG, KCB, DCL
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Born 1829
Died 1912
Residence c/o Messrs Henry S. King and co., 65 Cornhill, EC [1875]
c/o Messrs Henry S. King and Co., 65 Cornhill, EC [1888]
Fiji c/o Messrs Henry S. King and Co.
Red House, Ascot [1894]
Occupation administrative
Society Membership
membership Ordinary Fellow
left 1903 last listed
elected_AI 1875.03.09
clubs Athenaeum Club
Bath Club



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proposed 1875.02.23
Governor of Fiji
Governor of New Zealand in 1881 list
Governor of Ceylon in 1888
1909.02.09. Members three years in arrears.
It was resolved that Messrs Pope Hennessy, H.O. Forbes, G.F. Lawrence, Swinhoe and Seymour Sewell should be warned.
That Messrs Bennett Goldney and Gordon should be put into the hands of the LAPT; that action against Messrs Giblin, Andrews and Connolly should be deferred for another year, and that Messrs Edgar, Mitchell, and Spiers be struck off the list of Fellows.

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Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, GCMG, KJStJ (26 November 1829 – 30 January 1912)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator. He had extensive contact with Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
Governor of Fiji[6] from 1875 to 1880

Born London; died London. Youngest son of fourth Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister 1852-5. MP for Beverley 1854-7. Governor of various colonies including New Brunswick, Trinidad, Mauritius, Fiji, New Zealand, and Ceylon. CMG 1859; KCMG 1871; GCMG 1878; created Baron Stanmore 1893. Honorary degree from Oxford.

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External Publications


William Ewart Gladstone, Baron Arthur Hamilton-Gordon Stanmore (1961). Gladstone-Gordon correspondence, 1851–1896: selections from the private correspondence of a British Prime Minister and a colonial Governor, Volume 51. American Philosophical Society.

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