Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox officeholder Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore Template:Postnominals (26 November 1829 – 30 January 1912)<ref name="rayment">{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= s | peers/peersS{{#if: 5| 5 | }}.htm | }} Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages {{#if: s | – Peerages beginning with "S" | }} {{#if: 5 | (part 5) | }}{{#if: | 

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}}</ref> was a Scottish Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator. He had extensive contact with Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

Career

Gordon was born at Argyll House,<ref name="1891census">1891 England Census</ref> his family's townhouse in London, in 1829.<ref name="DNZB Baron Stanmore">Template:DNZB</ref> He was the youngest son of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen and his second wife, Harriet Douglas. His mother was the widow of Viscount Hamilton.<ref name="DNZB Baron Stanmore" />

Gordon was educated privately and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1849.<ref>Template:Acad</ref>

After graduating in 1851, he worked as Assistant Private Secretary to the British Prime Minister (his father) between 1852 and 1855, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Beverley from 1854 to 1857.<ref name="rayment" /> In 1875, the Fiji Islands were created a separate Colony, and Sir Arthur Gordon was appointed the first Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji, until 1880. In connection with this he also received the appointment of Consul-General, and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, but that gave little additional power. He held a number of colonial governorships:

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He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1871, and a Knight Grand Cross of the same Order in 1878.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> He was created Baron Stanmore, of Great Stanmore, in the County of Middlesex on 21 August 1893.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

In 1897, Lord Stanmore became the chairman of the Pacific Islands Company Ltd ('PIC'). Formed by John T. Arundel, PIC was based in London with its trading activities in the Pacific that involved mining phosphate rock on Banaba (then known as Ocean Island) and Nauru.<ref>Albert F. Ellis, (1935) Ocean Island and Nauru: Their Story, Chapter IV</ref> John T. Arundel and Lord Stanmore were responsible for financing the new opportunities and negotiating with the German company that controlled the licences to mine in Nauru. In 1902, the interests of PIC were merged with Jaluit Gesellschaft of Hamburg, to form the Pacific Phosphate Company, ('PPC') to engage in phosphate mining in Banaba and Nauru.<ref>Maslyn Williams & Barrie Macdonald (1985) The Phosphateers</ref>

Gordon's ethnographic collection from Fiji, which was assembled during his Governorship, was donated to the British Museum in 1878.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in March 1900.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

Works

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Personal life and death

On 20 September 1865, Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, wed Rachel Emily Shaw Lefevre in London. The couple had a daughter and a son.Template:Cn

He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire in 1861.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore died on 30 January 1912 in Chelsea, London.Template:Cn

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