Background
Hamilton was the third son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa, daughter of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, and was educated at Harrow.
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Hamilton was the third son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa, daughter of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, and was educated at Harrow.
Harrow School.
He served under Benjamin Disraeli as Under-Secretary of State for India from 1874 to 1878 and as Vice-President of the Committee on Education from 1878 to 1880 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1878. He entered the cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty under Lord Salisbury in 1885, a post he held until 1886 and again between 1886 and 1892. In 1903 he was appointed a GCSI. In 1916 he was part of the Mesopotamia Commission of Inquiry.
He served as the company"s chairman between 1915 and 1919, following the resignation of Sir Edgar Speyer in 1915.
Hamilton also held the honorary posts of Captain of Deal Castle (1899–1923) and Major of Deal (1909) and received the degree of honorary Doctor of Laws from Glasgow University and of honorary Data Control Language from Oxford University. He was also a Justice of Peace for Middlesex and Westminster.
He was also President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1910 to 1912 and from 1915 to 1916. Hamilton married Lady Maud Caroline, daughter of Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood, in 1871.
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23rd United Kingdom Parliament.
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Hamilton was Member of Parliament for Middlesex between 1868 and 1885 and for Ealing between 1885 and 1906.
Foreign a number of years, Hamilton was a member of the board of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) which ran the majority of London"s Underground lines.