Lord Frederic Hamilton

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, the sixth son and thirteenth child of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell. He served as Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service from 1877 to 1884, as well as Member of Parliament for Manchester South West from 1885 to 1886 and North Tyrone from 1892 to 1895. Lord Frederick also wrote the three-volume collection of books, The Days Before Yesterday, Vanished Pomps of...See more

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, the sixth son and thirteenth child of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell. He served as Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service from 1877 to 1884, as well as Member of Parliament for Manchester South West from 1885 to 1886 and North Tyrone from 1892 to 1895. Lord Frederick also wrote the three-volume collection of books, The Days Before Yesterday, Vanished Pomps of Yesterday, and Here, There, and Everywhere, which were initially published in 1920 by Hodder & Stoughton and marketed as My Yesterdays. These provide colorful, sometimes funny, and always well-written tales of his early life, diplomatic career, and travels. While serving as an aide-de-camp to Lord Lansdowne, then Governor-General of Canada, in Ottawa. Lord Frederick introduced skiing to Canada in January 1887, using skis he brought from Russia. As he recalls, he used to "slide down the toboggan slides in Ottawa, to universal derision." He was informed that they were "unsuitable for Canadian conditions and would never be popular in Canada." From 1896 to 1900, he was the editor of Pall Mall Magazine. He never married and died childless. See less