George Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore

George Arthur Maurice Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore KCVO PC (3 January 1871 – 13 April 1957), was a British Liberal politician.

[1] He served from 1892 to 1895 as private secretary to successively the First Commissioner of Works and the President of the Local Government Board (both offices were held by his uncle George Shaw-Lefevre).

Hamilton-Gordon was enlisted with the Hampshire Regiment, but in January 1902 transferred to be captain of the 3rd Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders.

[2] After succeeding his father in the barony in 1912 Stanmore served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) under H. H. Asquith and then David Lloyd George from 1914 to 1922.

He gets a mention in historian Michael Bloch's book Closet Queens as a "homosexual bachelor.