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The Right Honourable Lord George Hamilton GCSI JP
Hamilton in 1890

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 Brighton, Sussex
Died	22 September 1927(1927-09-22) (aged 81) Marylebone, London
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 HamiltonGCSI PC JP (17 December 1845 – 22 September 1927) was a BritishConservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who served asFirst Lord of the Admiralty andSecretary of State for India.^[1]

Background

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Hamilton was born inBrighton into the aristocracy,^[2] the third son ofJames, Marquess of Abercorn (later the Duke of Abercorn) andLady Louisa, daughter ofJohn Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford. His parents were "long remembered as the handsomest and most distinguished couple of their time."^[1]

He was educated atHarrow. He served with theRifle Brigade andColdstream Guards, achieving the rank of lieutenant.^[1]

Political career

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Hamilton wasMember of Parliament forMiddlesex between 1868 and 1885 and forEaling between 1885 and 1906. He served underBenjamin Disraeli asUnder-Secretary of State for India from 1874 to 1878 and asVice-President of the Committee on Education from 1878 to 1880 and was sworn of thePrivy Council in 1878.

He entered the cabinet asFirst Lord of the Admiralty underLord Salisbury in 1885, a post he held until 1886 and again between 1886 and 1892. In 1894 he was elected as Chairman of theLondon School Board, standing down after one year when the Unionists won the general election and he becameSecretary of State for India under Salisbury, which he remained until 1903, the last year under the premiership ofArthur Balfour. He was appointed a Knight Grand Commander of theOrder of the Star of India (GCSI) in the1903 Durbar Honours,^[3]^[4] and was knighted and invested with the decoration by KingEdward VII on 28 January 1903, during a visit to Windsor Castle.^[5]

In 1916 he was part of theMesopotamia Commission of Inquiry.

Other public appointments

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For a number of years, Hamilton was a member of the board of theUnderground 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 SirEdgar Speyer in 1915.^[6]^[7]

Hamilton also held the honorary posts ofCaptain of Deal Castle (1899–1923) and Major ofDeal (1909) and received the degree of honoraryLLD fromGlasgow University and of honoraryDCL from theUniversity of Oxford. He was also aJustice of Peace for Middlesex and Westminster. Hamilton was a Founder of the London School Board Masonic Lodge No. 2611 in 1896

He was alsoPresident of the Royal Statistical Society from 1910 to 1912 and from 1915 to 1916.^[8]

Family and children

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

Ronald James HamiltonOBE (1872–1958), who fought in the First World War, was wounded and in 1919 invested an OBE. He was awarded with the decoration of theOrder of the Crown (Belgium). He served asFirst 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 LeaderCount 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 theEast 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, at his house inPortman Square, London.^[1] His wife survived him by eleven years and died in April 1938.

References

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^^a ^b ^c ^d"Obituary: Lord George Hamilton".The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 23 September 1927. p. 15.
^"Births".Morning Herald. 20 December 1845. p. 7. Retrieved28 August 2024.
^"The Durbar Honours".The Times. No. 36966. London. 1 January 1903. p. 8.
^"No. 27511".The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1903. p. 2.
^"Court Circular".The Times. No. 36990. London. 29 January 1903. p. 7.
^"New Chairman of the Underground".The Times. No. 40858. 19 May 1915. p. 13. Retrieved9 August 2009.
^"Sir A. Stanley on Railway Services".The Times. No. 42114. 31 May 1919. p. 12. Retrieved9 August 2009.
^"Royal Statistical Society Presidents". Royal Statistical Society. Archived fromthe original on 13 October 2008. Retrieved5 August 2010.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Enfieldand Henry Labouchère	Member of Parliament forMiddlesex 1868 –1885 With:Viscount Enfield 1857–1874 Octavius Edward Coope 1874–1885	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament forEaling 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 theLondon School Board 1894 – 1895	Succeeded by The Marquess of Londonderry
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Preceded by SirEdgar Speyer	Chairman, Underground Electric Railways Company of London 1915–1919	Succeeded by SirAlbert Stanley

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Secretary of State for the Colonies	Sir Frederick Stanley (1885–1886)
Secretary of State for War	William Henry Smith (1885–1886) The Viscount Cranbrook (1886)
Secretary of State for India	Lord Randolph Churchill (1885–1886)
First Lord of the Admiralty	Lord George Hamilton (1885–1886)
Chancellor of the Exchequer Leader of the House of Commons	Sir Michael Hicks Beach (1885–1886)
President of the Board of Trade	The Duke of Richmond (1885) Edward Stanhope (1885–1886)
Chief Secretary for Ireland	William Henry Smith (1886)
Postmaster General	Lord John Manners (1885–1886)
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland	The Earl of Carnarvon (1885–1886)
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20th century	1902–1904Patrick George Craigie 1904–1905Sir Francis Powell, Bt 1905–1906The Earl of Onslow 1906–1907Richard Martin 1907–1909Sir Charles Dilke, Bt 1909–1910Jervoise Athelstane Baines 1910–1912Lord George Hamilton 1912–1914Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1914–1915The Lord Welby 1915–1916Lord George Hamilton 1916–1918Bernard Mallet,Registrar General 1918–1920Herbert Samuel 1920–1922R. Henry Rew 1922–1924The Lord Emmott 1924–1926Udny Yule 1926–1928The Viscount D'Abernon 1928–1930A. William Flux 1930–1932Sir Josiah Stamp 1932–1934The Lord Meston 1934–1936Major Greenwood 1936–1938The Lord Kennet 1938–1940Arthur Lyon Bowley 1940–1941Henry William Macrosty 1941Hector Leak 1941–1943William Beveridge 1943–1945Ernest Charles Snow 1945–1947The Lord Woolton 1947–1949David Heron 1949–1950Sir Geoffrey Heyworth 1950–1952Austin Bradford Hill 1952–1954Ronald Fisher 1954–1955The Lord Piercy 1955–1957Egon Pearson 1957–1959Harry Campion 1959–1960Hugh Beaver 1960–1962Maurice Kendall 1962–1964Joseph Oscar Irwin 1964–1965Sir Paul Chambers 1965–1966L. H. C. Tippett 1966–1967M. S. Bartlett 1967–1968Frank Yates 1968–1969Arthur Cockfield 1969–1970R. G. D. Allen 1970–1971Bernard Benjamin 1971–1972George Alfred Barnard 1972–1973Harold Wilson 1973–1974D. J. Finney 1974–1975Henry Daniels 1975–1977Stella Cunliffe 1977–1978Henry Wynn 1978–1980Sir Claus Moser 1980–1982David Cox 1982–1984Peter Armitage 1984–1985Walter Bodmer 1985–1986John Nelder 1986–1987James Durbin 1987–1989John Kingman 1989–1991Peter G. Moore 1991–1993T. M. F. Smith 1993–1995D. J. Bartholomew 1995–1997Adrian Smith 1997–1999Robert Nicholas Curnow 1999–2001Denise Lievesley
21st century	2001–2003Peter Green 2003–2005Andy Grieve 2005–2007Tim Holt 2008–2009David Hand 2010–2010Bernard Silverman (resigned Feb 2010; replacedpro tem by David Hand) 2011–2012Valerie Isham 2013–2014John Pullinger 2014–2016Peter Diggle 2017–2018David Spiegelhalter 2019–Deborah Ashby
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