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"The Pall Mall Magazine"
Hamilton as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1895
Skiers in Ottawa, 1895. Lord Frederick Hamilton introduced the sport of skiing to Canada in 1887.

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (13 October 1856 – 11 August 1928) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, the sixth son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell.

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 books "Here, There and Everywhere", "The Days Before Yesterday" and "Vanished Pomps of Yesterday" which was first published in 1920 by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London.

While serving as aide-de-camp to Lord Lansdowne, then Governor-General of Canada, in Ottawa, Lord Frederick was the first person to introduce skiing to Canada.[1]

From 1896 to 1900, he was editor of the Pall Mall Magazine.[2] He never married and died without children.

Ancestry

Family of Lord Frederick Hamilton
16. Captain The Hon. John Hamilton
8. John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn
17. Harriet Craggs
4. James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton
18. Sir Joseph Copley, 1st Baronet
9. Catherine Copley
19. Mary Buller
2. James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
20. James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
10. The Hon. John Douglas
21. Bridget Heathcote
5. Harriet Douglas
22. Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood
11. Lady Frances Lascelles
23. Anne Chaloner
1. Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
24. John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
12. Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock
25. The Hon. Gertrude Leveson-Gower
6. John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
26. Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
13. Lady Elizabeth Keppel
27. Lady Anne Lennox
3. Lady Louisa Jane Russell
28. Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon
14. Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
29. Lady Catherine Gordon
7. Lady Georgina Gordon
30. Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet of Monreith, Wigtownshire
15. Jane Maxwell
31. Magdalen Blair

Works

References

  1. ^ Hamilton, Lord Frederick Spencer. "IX". The Days before Yesterday. Retrieved 3 December 2006.
  2. ^ "The Pall Mall Magazine". Retrieved 3 December 2006.
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