George Arthur Maurice Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore (3 January 1871 – 13 April 1957), was a British

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politician.

Biography

Stanmore was the only son of Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, youngest son of Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. His mother was Rachel Emily, daughter of Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre. He was educated at Winchester and

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. He served from 1892 to 1895 as private secretary to successively the

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and the

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(both offices were held by his uncle George Shaw-Lefevre). Hamilton-Gordon was enlisted with the

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, but in January 1902 transferred to be captain of the 3rd Battalion, the

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. After succeeding his father in the barony in 1912 Stanmore served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the

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) under

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and then

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. He was made a CVO in 1922 and a KCVO in 1930 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1932. The Lord Stanmore died in April 1957, aged 86. He never married and the title became extinct on his death. He gets a mention in historian Michael Bloch's book ''Closet Queens'' as a "homosexual bachelor."

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