SGAG Logo

FREDERIC HAMILTON

1856 - 1928

Writing as: Frederic Hamilton


According to Wikipedia: "Lord Frederic Hamilton was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, the sixth son and thirteenth child of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell.


He was Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service (1877–1884) and Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester South West (1885–1886) and North Tyrone (1892–1895). Lord Frederick also wrote the three- volume set of books, The Days Before Yesterday, Vanished Pomps of Yesterday and Here, There and Everywhere, which were first published in 1920 by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London. These give vivid, sometimes amusing and always well-written accounts of his early life, life in the diplomatic service, and travels.


While serving as aide-de-camp to Lord Lansdowne, then Governor-General of Canada, in Ottawa, In January 1887, Lord Frederick was the first person to introduce skiing to Canada, using skis he had brought from Russia. 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."



Series Books
 
P. J. Davenant The Holiday Adventures of Mr. P. J. Davenant (1915)
  Some Further Adventures of Mr. P. J. Davenant (1915)
  The Education of Mr. P. J. Davenant (1916)
  Nine Holiday Adventures of Mr. P. J. Davenant (1916)
  The Beginnings of Mr. P.J. Davenant (1917)
  P.J., the Secret Service Boy (1922)
  More About P.J., the Secret Service Boy (1922)
  "K.U.W." (nv) (1915)
  The Bracing East Coast (nv) (1915)
  In Kent (nv) (1915)
  In the South (nv) (1915)
  In the North (nv) (1915)
  In Sussex (nv) (1915)
  In London (nv) (1915)
  In Devonshire (nv) (1915)
  In Cornwall (nv) (1915)
  The Squire of Wensbridge (ss) (1916)
  Elementary Education (ss) (1916)
  The Downward Path (ss) (1916)
  Ted the Tutor (ss) (1916)
  The Lady from Cleveland, O. (ss) (1916)
  A Visit to the Suburbs (ss) (1916)
  The Call of the Wild (ss) (1916)
  Ulster Intervenes (ss) (1916)
  Developments (ss) (1916)
  Mr. Simmonds’ Week-End (ss) (1916)
  Mainly Educational (ss) (1916)
  A New Russian Singer (ss) (1916)
  Model Locomotives (ss) (1916)
  What Model Locomotives Could Do (ss) (1916)
  A Change of Scene (ss) (1916)
  On the Trail (ss) (1916)
  Afloat (ss) (1916)
  Back to the Land (ss) (1916)
  Ted Simmonds Plays the Hand Alone (ss) (1916)
  Lady Cynthia (ss) (1916)
  The Stranger in Grey (ss) (1916)
  Firearms (ss) (1916)
  The Young Entry (ss) (1916)
  The New Year (ss) (1916)
  The Lady at Hampstead (ss) (1917)
  A Display of Fireworks (ss) (1917)
  The Mail Boat (ss) (1917)
  Salisbury Plain (ss) (1917)
  The Special Train (ss) (1917)
  "This House to Let" (ss) (1917)
  The Beginning (ss) (1922)
  The Man with the Squint (ss) (1922)
  In Hertfordshire (ss) (1922)
  In Norfolk (ss) (1922)
  The Lady from Cleveland, O. (ss) (1922)
  In Kent (ss) (1922)
  In Sussex (ss) (1922)
  In Wiltshire (ss) (1922)
  The Russian Prince (ss) (1923)
  H.M.S. Gannet (ss) (1923)
  In Devonshire (ss) (1923)
  In Cornwall (ss) (1923)
  At Pangbourne (ss) (1923)
  At School (ss) (1923)