Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton Vanity Fair 1895-02-07

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (13 October 1856 – 11 August 1928) was a

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politician in the

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, the sixth son and thirteenth child of

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and Lady Louisa Jane Russell. He was Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service (1877–1884) and

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(MP) for Manchester South West (1885–1886) and North Tyrone (1892–1895). Lord Frederick also wrote the three- volume set of books, ''The Days Before Yesterday'', ''Vanished Pomps of Yesterday'' and ''Here, There and Everywhere'', which were first published in 1920 by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London. These give vivid, sometimes amusing and always well-written accounts of his early life, life in the diplomatic service, and travels. While serving as aide-de-camp to Lord Lansdowne, then

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, in

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, In January 1887, Lord Frederick was the first person to introduce

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, using skis he had brought from Russia. As he recounts, he used to "slide down the toboggan slides at Ottawa on them, to universal derision". He was told they were "unsuited to Canadian conditions, and would never be popular in Canada". From 1896 to 1900, he was editor of the

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. He never married and died without children.

Ancestry

Works

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* * * * * * 1856 births 1928 deaths Irish Conservative Party MPs Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tyrone constituencies (1801–1922) Younger sons of dukes UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1892–1895 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub