Gavin George Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, (29 June 1872 – 23 June 1952), was a Scottish Liberal politician. Hamilton was the second but eldest surviving son of John Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, and his wife Lady Emily Eleanor, daughter of

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. He was educated at

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and later pursued a career in the military. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the

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on 30 March 1892, and promoted to

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on 20 March 1897, but resigned and was appointed to the Reserve in January 1900 with the rank of

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. He volunteered for service in the

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the following month, and was appointed a lieutenant in the 4th Battalion

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on 17 February 1900. Attached to the 28th (Bedfordshire) company, he left Albert Docks in the SS ''Kent'' in early February 1900, and arrived at

the following month, where he was

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to the

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. He also became Lord-in-waiting to

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between 1905 and 1910, and

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, 1910–1911. He succeeded his father in the barony in 1900 and took his seat on the Liberal benches in the

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. From 1905 to 1911 he served under

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and later

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as a

(government whip in the House of Lords). He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of

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in September 1901, and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire between 1938 and 1952. In 1909 he was made a

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. He also received foreign awards: the

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from Russia, the

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from Italy, the Norwegian

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, and the

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. Lord Hamilton of Dalzell married Sybil Mary Marshall, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Marshall, in 1912. She died in 1933. Hamilton survived her by nineteen years and died in June 1952, aged 79. He was succeeded in the barony by his nephew

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(1911–1990).

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