Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, Baron Stanmore (1829–1912)

[1st Baron].  British administrator, born on the 26th of November 1829, the youngest son of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen. He was educated at Cambridge and afterwards entered politics, becoming private secretary to the Prime Minister, Lord Derby, from 1852 to 1855, and sitting as member for Beverley from 1854 to 1857. He was successively governor of Trinidad (1866–70), Mauritius (1871–74), Fiji (1875–80), New Zealand (1880–02) and Ceylon (1883–90). He was raised to the peerage in 1893, and died in London on the 30th of January 1912. He was succeeded by his son, George Arthur Maurice Hamilton-Gordon, born on the 3rd of January 1871, who in 1916 was appointed lord-in-waiting to King George V.