Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, KCB (6 July 1859 – 13 February 1939) was a British Army officer who served in World War I. Hamilton-Gordon was one of ten children of General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon and Caroline Herschel.

His paternal grandfather was George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

[1] Hamilton-Gordon later served in the Second Boer War, taking part in actions at Ladysmith, Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz and Tugela Heights.

[1] He became Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for Intelligence in South Africa in early 1901.

[1] Arriving back in the United Kingdom, he briefly became an instructor at the School of Gunnery before he was appointed a Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master-General at Aldershot in October 1901.