Lord George Hamilton

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First Lord of the Admiralty
In office 24 June 1885 – 28 January 1886
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Prime Minister	The Marquess of Salisbury
Preceded by	The Earl of Northbrook
Succeeded by	The Marquess of Ripon
In office 9 August 1886 – 11 August 1892
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Prime Minister	The Marquess of Salisbury
Preceded by	The Marquess of Ripon
Succeeded by	The Earl Spencer
Secretary of State for India
In office 4 July 1895 – 9 October 1903
Monarchs	Queen Victoria Edward VII
Prime Minister	The Marquess of Salisbury Arthur Balfour
Preceded by	Henry Fowler
Succeeded by	Hon. St John Brodrick
Personal details
Born	(1845-12-17)17 December 1845
Died	22 September 1927(1927-09-22) (aged 81)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Lady Maud Lascelles (1846–1938)
Children	3
Parent(s)	James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn Lady Louisa Russell
Alma mater	Harrow School

Lord George Francis Hamilton

.

Background

Hamilton was the third son of

, achieving the rank of lieutenant.

Political career

Hamilton was

Privy Council

in 1878.

He entered the cabinet as

In 1916 he was part of the Mesopotamia Commission of Inquiry.

Other public appointments

For a number of years, Hamilton was a member of the board of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) which ran the majority of London's Underground lines. He served as the company's chairman between 1915 and 1919, following the resignation of Sir Edgar Speyer in 1915.^[3][4]

Hamilton also held the honorary posts of

for Middlesex and Westminster. Hamilton was a Founder of the London School Board Masonic Lodge No. 2611 in 1896

He was also

Family and children

Hamilton married Lady Maud Caroline, daughter of Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood, in 1871. They had three sons:

• Ronald James Hamilton
  First Secretary in the Diplomatic Service
  . In 1915 he married Florence Marguerite (Sarah Brooke) Hanna (d. 1959). They had one daughter:
  • Maud Sarah Hamilton (1917–1995). In 1939 she married Squadron Leader
    Count Manfred Maria Edmund Ralph Beckett Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, DFC, DSO, MC, RAF
    (1913–1962). With him she had one son and one daughter.
• Major Anthony George Hamilton (1874–1936), who fought in the First World War with the
  East Kent Regiment
  . He died unmarried and without issue.
• Vice-Admiral Robert Cecil Hamilton (1882–1947), who fought in the First World War. In 1911 he married Edith Maud Paley (d. 1967), daughter of the barrister Algernon Herbert Paley.

Hamilton died in September 1927, aged 81. His wife survived him by eleven years and died in April 1938.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lord George Hamilton

16. Captain The Hon. John Hamilton 8. John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn 17. Harriet Craggs 4. James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton 18. Sir Joseph Copley, 1st Baronet 9. Catherine Copley 19. Mary Buller 2. James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn 20. James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton 10. The Hon. John Douglas 21. Bridget Heathcote 5. Harriet Douglas 22. Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood 11. Lady Frances Lascelles 23. Anne Chaloner 1. Lord George Hamilton 24. John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford 12. Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock 25. The Hon. Gertrude Leveson-Gower 6. John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford 26. Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle 13. Lady Elizabeth Keppel 27. Lady Anne Lennox 3. Lady Louisa Jane Russell 28. Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon 14. Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon 29. Lady Catherine Gordon 7. Lady Georgina Gordon 30. Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet of Monreith, Wigtownshire 15. Jane Maxwell 31. Magdalen Blair

References

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord George Hamilton
• CricketArchive: Lord George Hamilton
• "Hamilton, Rt. Hon. Lord George Francis" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 102  – via Wikisource.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Enfieldand Henry Labouchère	Octavius Edward Coope 1874–1885	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Ealing 1885 – 1906	Succeeded by Sir Herbert Nield
Political offices
Preceded by M. E. Grant Duff	Under-Secretary of State for India 1874 – 1878	Succeeded by Hon. Edward Stanhope
Preceded by Viscount Sandon	Vice-President of the Committee on Education 1878–1880	Succeeded by A. J. Mundella
Preceded by The Earl of Northbrook	First Lord of the Admiralty 1885 – 1886	Succeeded by The Marquess of Ripon
Preceded by The Marquess of Ripon	First Lord of the Admiralty 1886 – 1892	Succeeded by The Earl Spencer
Preceded by Henry Fowler	Secretary of State for India 1895 – 1903	Succeeded by Hon. St John Brodrick
Government offices
Preceded by Joseph Diggle	Chairman of the London School Board 1894 – 1895	Succeeded by The Marquess of Londonderry
Business positions
Preceded by Sir Edgar Speyer	Chairman, Underground Electric Railways Company of London 1915–1919	Succeeded by Sir Albert Stanley