Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore GCMG KStJ

Gordon left New Zealand on 24 June 1882. He had shown courage in opposing what he regarded as an unjust policy over Parihaka, but his manner and methods alienated ministers and left him without any moderating influence. The Parihaka affair haunted Gordon for some time. He had injudiciously provided G. W. Rusden with information critical of Bryce which was published in Rusden's History of New Zealand (1883). During Bryce's libel case against Rusden in London in 1886 Gordon was attacked, not only as the source of the libel but for supplying such information while Bryce was one of his ministers. This unfavourable publicity led Gladstone to defer his recommendation of Gordon for a peerage; he had to wait until 1893 for that honour, when he was created Baron Stanmore, of Great Stanmore, Middlesex. Source: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore GCMG KStJ (26 November 1829 – 30 January 1912)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator. He had extensive contact with Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Source: Wikipedia.

Sources

1. W. P. N. Tyler. 'Gordon, Arthur Hamilton', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2g13/gordon-arthur-hamilton (accessed 2 November 2021)
2. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hamilton-Gordon,_1st_Baron_Sta...