Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

Skiers in Ottawa, 1895. Lord Frederick Hamilton introduced the sport of skiing to Canada in 1887. Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (13 October 1856 – 11 August 1928) was a British aristocrat, Conservative politician, diplomat, and author.

Biography

Lord Frederick was born in Brighton, the sixth son and thirteenth child of James Hamilton, Marquess of Abercorn and Louisa, Marchioness of Abercorn, who were "long remembered as the most handsome and most distinguished young couple of their generation." His father was created the 1st Duke of Abercorn in 1868. His mother, the daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford, was the half-sister to Prime Minister John Russell. 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 Pall Mall Magazine.

He never married and died without children, aged 71, at 13 Great College Street, Westminster.

Ancestry

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