Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon
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Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon KT
(April 27 1720 – 5 August 1752), styled Marquess of Huntly until 1728, was a Scottish peer
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Gordon was the son of the 2nd Duke of Gordon
and was named after his father's close, Jacobite
friend, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
. He sat in the House of Lords
as a Scottish Representative Peer
from 1747 to 1752. In 1748, he was made a Knight of the Thistle
.
, on 3 September 1741; they had children:
Order of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...
(April 27 1720 – 5 August 1752), styled Marquess of Huntly until 1728, was a Scottish peer
Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...
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Gordon was the son of the 2nd Duke of Gordon
Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon
General Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon , styled Earl of Enzie until 1684 and the Marquess of Huntly from 1684 to 1716, was a Scottish peer....
and was named after his father's close, Jacobite
Jacobitism
Jacobitism was the political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland...
friend, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Cosimo III de' Medici was the penultimate Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. Cosimo's 53-year long reign, the longest in Tuscan history, was marked by a series of ultra-reactionary laws which regulated prostitution and...
. He sat in the House of Lords
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
as a Scottish Representative Peer
Representative peer
In the United Kingdom, representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords...
from 1747 to 1752. In 1748, he was made a Knight of the Thistle
Order of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...
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Family
Gordon married Lady Catherine Gordon (c. 1725 – 10 December 1779), daughter of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of AberdeenWilliam Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen
William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen , known between c. 1691 and 1720 as Lord Haddo, was a Scottish peer, Tory politician and Jacobite....
, on 3 September 1741; they had children:
- Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of GordonAlexander Gordon, 4th Duke of GordonAlexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon KT , styled Marquess of Huntly until 1752, was a Scottish nobleman, described by Kaimes as the "greatest subject in Britain", and was also known as the Cock o' the North, the traditional epithet attached to the chief of the Gordon clan.-Early life:Alexander...
(1743–1827), - Lord William Gordon (1744–1823), married Hon. Frances Ingram-Shepheard (daughter of Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine),
- Lord George GordonLord George GordonLord George Gordon was a British politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780....
(1751–1793), - Lady Susan Gordon (c. 1752–1814), married first John Fane, 9th Earl of WestmorlandJohn Fane, 9th Earl of WestmorlandJohn Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland was an English earl. He succeeded his father the 8th Earl as Earl and as MP for Lyme Regis from 1762 .-Lord Burghersh:...
, and second, Colonel John Woodford, having issue from both marriages.
External links
- http://auden.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/auden/family.php?famid=F8979