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Here, There and Everywhere
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164 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1921
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Frederick Spencer Hamilton
37 books4 followersLord Frederick Spencer Hamilton was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, the sixth son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell.
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December 30, 2025
Sir Frederick Spencer Hamilton was a Conservative MP and diplomat, a much-travelled man and perhaps a little more tolerant of other races than his contemporaries, if these memoirs are a fair reflection of the man.
In 1891 was invited to join the Maharajah of Cooch Behar's shooting-party, where he bagged himself two tigers, a bear and a water buffalo, the hides of which decorated his drawing-room. Big game hunting is a ghastly pursuit and his drawing-room must have looked equally ghastly.
Among his other anecdotes of the subcontinent are witnessing a display by the "Devil Dancers' of Ceylon. Further east he experienced both the beautiful sights and awful smells crammed into the narrow streets of Canton.
A good number of his reminisces are reserved for his various visits to the colonial West Indies, the origins of which had fascinated him from childhood due to the writing of Captain Marryat. Although an obvious imperialist, I as happy that he acknowledged the islands had been 'blighted until 1834 by the curse of negro slavery.' He visited Kingston after the earthquake of 1907. I was amused to discover that Bermudians at that time spoke with an Irish accent!
Lastly he visited General Botha in South Africa and found him to be a nice man. His wife looked after a sick child for the diplomat. The flies there gave him food for thought:
'I have a theory that when Moses "removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh," he banished them to the southern extremity of the continent, where the flies, imagining that their services might some day be required again to plague the Egyptians, have kept themselves in a constant state of mobilization ever since.'
The Boers were welcome to those at least.
In 1891 was invited to join the Maharajah of Cooch Behar's shooting-party, where he bagged himself two tigers, a bear and a water buffalo, the hides of which decorated his drawing-room. Big game hunting is a ghastly pursuit and his drawing-room must have looked equally ghastly.
Among his other anecdotes of the subcontinent are witnessing a display by the "Devil Dancers' of Ceylon. Further east he experienced both the beautiful sights and awful smells crammed into the narrow streets of Canton.
A good number of his reminisces are reserved for his various visits to the colonial West Indies, the origins of which had fascinated him from childhood due to the writing of Captain Marryat. Although an obvious imperialist, I as happy that he acknowledged the islands had been 'blighted until 1834 by the curse of negro slavery.' He visited Kingston after the earthquake of 1907. I was amused to discover that Bermudians at that time spoke with an Irish accent!
Lastly he visited General Botha in South Africa and found him to be a nice man. His wife looked after a sick child for the diplomat. The flies there gave him food for thought:
'I have a theory that when Moses "removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh," he banished them to the southern extremity of the continent, where the flies, imagining that their services might some day be required again to plague the Egyptians, have kept themselves in a constant state of mobilization ever since.'
The Boers were welcome to those at least.
May 26, 2013
Hamilton is very charming, so even though this is a somewhat self indulgent collection of anecdotes it is pleasant and interesting. I recommend reading The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday first, then The Days Before Yesterday.
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