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

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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 , the sixth son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn

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 and Lady Louisa Jane Russell.

He was Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service (1877–1884) and Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Manchester South West

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 (1885–1886) and North Tyrone

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 (1892–1895). Lord Frederick also wrote the books "Here, There and Everywhere", "The Days Before Yesterday" and "Vanished Pomps of Yesterday".

While serving as aide-de-camp

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 to Lord Lansdowne

Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

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, then Governor-General of Canada, in Ottawa

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, Lord Frederick was the first person to introduce skiing

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 to Canada

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From 1896 to 1900, he was editor of the Pall Mall Magazine. He never married and died without children.

Ancestry

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