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Arthur Hamilton Gordon

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| birth_date = 1829
| death_date = 1912
| address = c/0 o Messrs Henry S. King and co., 65 Cornhill, EC [18851875]<br />c/o Messrs Henry S. King and Co., 65 Cornhill, EC [1888]<br />Fiji c/o Messrs Henry S. King and Co.<br />Red House, Ascot [18991894]<br />
| occupation = administrative
| elected_ESL =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Ordinary Fellow
| left = 1903 last listed
| clubs = Athenaeum Club<br />Bath Club
| societies =
=== House Notes ===
proposed 1875.02.23<br />Governor of Fiji<br />Governor of New Zealand in 1885 1881 list<br />Governor of Ceylon in 1888<br />1909.02.09. Members three years in arrears.<br />It was resolved that Messrs Pope Hennessy, H.O. Forbes, G.F. Lawrence, Swinhoe and Seymour Sewell should be warned.<br />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.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
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<br />Governor of Fiji[6] from 1875 to 1880<br /><br />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.<br />
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