Sir arthur gordon biography
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GORDON, ARTHUR HAMILTON, 1st Baron STANMORE, lieutenant governor; b. 26 Nov.
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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. 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.
Sir arthur gordon biography
In he had written to his father, “I feel . . . an excessive desire to be eminent. . . . My idea – one tha