The Days Before Yesterday

by Lord Frederick Hamilton

Overview

Reproduction of the original: The Days Before Yesterday by Lord Frederick Hamilton

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789361158933
Publisher:	Double 9 Books
Publication date:	01/01/2024
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Lord Frederick Spencer 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 served as Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service from 1877 to 1884, as well as Member of Parliament for Manchester South West from 1885 to 1886 and North Tyrone from 1892 to 1895. Lord Frederick also wrote the three-volume collection of books, The Days Before Yesterday, Vanished Pomps of Yesterday, and Here, There, and Everywhere, which were initially published in 1920 by Hodder & Stoughton and marketed as My Yesterdays. These provide colorful, sometimes funny, and always well-written tales of his early life, diplomatic career, and travels. While serving as an aide-de-camp to Lord Lansdowne, then Governor-General of Canada, in Ottawa. Lord Frederick introduced skiing to Canada in January 1887, using skis he brought from Russia. As he recalls, he used to "slide down the toboggan slides in Ottawa, to universal derision." He was informed that they were "unsuitable for Canadian conditions and would never be popular in Canada."