Sir arthur gordon biography

GORDON, ARTHUR HAMILTON, 1st Baron STANMORE, lieutenant governor; b. 26 Nov. at Argyll House, London, England, youngest son of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and Harriet Douglas, widow of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton; m. 20 Sept.

Rachel Emily Shaw-Lefevre in London, and they had a daughter and a son; d. 30 Jan. in Chelsea (London), England.

Considered too delicate for public school, Arthur Gordon received an uneven education at home.

Sir arthur gordon biography

After a year at a preparatory school near Brighton, he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in the autumn of There he became an active and exemplary student. He took his ma degree in , and influenced by his friendship with Alfred Barry, later primate of Australia, he decided to study for holy orders.

The question of a career had engaged Gordon’s mind for some time.

In he had written to his father, “I feel . . . an excessive desire to be eminent. . . . My idea – one tha