Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
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. It was created on 4 January 1916 for John Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen
John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC , known as The Earl of Aberdeen from 1870 to 1916, was a Scottish politician...
. The Gordon family descends from John Gordon
Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo
Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet was a Scottish Royalist supporter of Charles I during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Gordon distinguished himself against the covenanters at Turriff, 1639, and joined Charles I in England...
, who fought as a Royalist against the Covenanter
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s in the Civil War
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. In 1642 he was created a Baronet, of Haddo in the County of Aberdeen, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. In 1644 he was found guilty of treason and beheaded, with the baronetcy forfeited. The title was restored after the Restoration
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for his son John, the second Baronet. He died without male issue and was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baronet. He was a noted advocate and served as Lord President of the Court of Session
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and as Lord Chancellor of Scotland
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. On 30 November 1682 he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland
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as Lord Haddo, Methlic, Tarves and Kellie, Viscount of Formartine and Earl of Aberdeen. He was succeeded by his only surviving son, the second Earl. He sat in the House of Lords
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as a Scottish Representative Peer
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from 1721 to 1727.
On his death the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage, the third Earl. He was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1761 and from 1774 to 1790. He was succeeded by his grandson, the fourth Earl. He was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo
George Gordon, Lord Haddo
George Gordon, Lord Haddo was a Scottish Freemason and the eldest son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.On 18 June 1782, Haddo married Charlotte Baird, a sister of Sir David Baird, Bt. and they had seven children:...
. Lord Aberdeen was a distinguished diplomat and statesman and served as Foreign Secretary
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from 1828 to 1830 and from 1841 to 1846 and as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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from 1852 to 1855. In 1815 he was created Viscount Gordon, of Aberdeen in the County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. Aberdeen married firstly Lady Catherine Elizabeth (1784–1812), daughter of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn
John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn
John James Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn KG, PC was an Irish peer and politician.-Background:He was the son of Captain Hon. John Hamilton and grandson of James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn. He was educated at Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge...
, and assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Hamilton in 1818. When he died the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage to Harriet Douglas, the fifth Earl. He sat as Liberal
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Member of Parliament
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for Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Aberdeenshire was a Scottish county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1868...
. His eldest son, the sixth Earl, was a sailor and adventurer. He was accidentally drowned off the coast of America in 1870.
He was unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, the seventh Earl. John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC , known as The Earl of Aberdeen from 1870 to 1916, was a Scottish politician...
, was a Liberal politician and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and from 1905 to 1915 and as Governor General of Canada
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from 1893 to 1898. In 1916 he was created Earl of Haddo, in the County of Aberdeen, and Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, in the County of Aberdeen, in the County of Meath and in the County of Argyll. Both titles are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Marquess. He was a member of the London County Council
London County Council
London County Council was the principal local government body for the County of London, throughout its 1889–1965 existence, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today known as Inner London and was replaced by the Greater London Council...
and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire. He was childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Marquess. He was notably President of the Federation of British Industries. When he died the titles passed to his eldest son, the fourth Marquess. He was a member of the Aberdeenshire County Council and Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire. He had four adopted children but no biological issue and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fifth Marquess. He was a broadcaster working for the BBC
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. He never married and on his death in 1984 the titles passed to his fourth and youngest brother, the sixth Marquess. He was Chairman of The Arts Club
The Arts Club
The Arts Club is a London private members club founded in 1863 by, amongst others, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Lord Leighton in Dover Street, Mayfair, London, England...
. the titles are held by his only son, the seventh Marquess, who succeeded in 2002.
Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville
Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville was a Scottish judge.Rockville was the youngest son of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, by his third wife Lady Anne, daughter of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon...
(1739–1792), third son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Lord of Session from 1788 to 1792 under the judicial title of Lord Rockville. His son William Duff-Gordon
Sir William Duff-Gordon, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Duff-Gordon, 2nd Baronet , known as William Gordon until 1815, was a Scottish politician.Duff-Gordon was the son of the Hon. Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville, son of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen. His mother was Anne, daughter of William Duff...
was Member of Parliament for Worcester
Worcester (UK Parliament constituency)
Worcester is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since 1885 it has elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election; from 1295 to 1885 it elected two MPs....
. In 1815 he succeeded his uncle as second Baronet of Halkin according to a special remainder and assumed the additional surname of Duff (see Duff-Gordon Baronets
Duff Baronets
There have been three creations of baronets with the surname Duff, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the creations are extinct while one is still extant. -Assheton-Smith, later Duff Baronets, of Vaynol Park :...
for further history of this branch of the family). The Hon. William Gordon
William Gordon (1785-1858)
Vice-Admiral William Gordon was a Scottish naval commander and Tory politician.-Naval career:Gordon was the second son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo, son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen. His mother was Charlotte, daughter of William Baird, while Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th...
, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire. The Hon. Alexander Gordon (1786–1815), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a soldier and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Waterloo
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.
The Hon. Sir Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon (diplomat)
Sir Robert Gordon GCB GCH PC was a British diplomat.Gordon was a younger son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo and a brother of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen...
, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Austria. The Hon. John Gordon (1792–1869), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. The Hon. Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (1817-1890)
General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon KCB , was a Scottish soldier and Liberal Party politician.Hamilton-Gordon was the second son of Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, by his second marriage to Harriet, daughter of the Hon. John Douglas. Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron...
(1817–1890), eldest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a General in the Army and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East
East Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)
East Aberdeenshire was a Scottish county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 to 1918 and form 1950 to 1983...
. His eldest son, Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (1859-1939)
Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon KCB was a British general during World War I.-Military career:Hamilton-Gordon was one of ten children of General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, K.C.B. and Caroline Herschel...
was also a General in the Army. Reverend the Hon. Douglas Hamilton-Gordon (1824–1901), third son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom
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and Canon of Salisbury
Diocese of Salisbury
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. The Hon. Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, fourth son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a Liberal politician and was created Baron Stanmore
Baron Stanmore
Baron Stanmore, of Great Stanmore in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1893 for the colonial administrator the Hon. Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon. He was the youngest son of the former Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen...
in 1893 (see this title for more information on him and this branch of the family). Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, GBE was a Scottish author, philanthropist and an advocate of woman's interests.-Family:...
, daughter of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth
Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth
Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth was a Scottish businessman and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1853 until 1880, when he was elevated to thepeerage as Baron Tweedmouth...
, and wife of the first Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, was an author, philanthropist and an advocate of woman's interests.
The title Earl of Haddo is the courtesy title
Courtesy title
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for the Marquess's eldest son and heir, the eldest son of whom uses the courtesy title
Courtesy title
A courtesy title is a form of address in systems of nobility used for children, former wives and other close relatives of a peer. These styles are used 'by courtesy' in the sense that the relatives do not themselves hold substantive titles...
Viscount of Formartine.
The family seat is Haddo House
Haddo House
Haddo House is a Scottish stately home located near Tarves in Aberdeenshire, approximately 20 miles north of Aberdeen . It has been owned by the National Trust for Scotland since 1979....
, Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 unitary council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy area.The present day Aberdeenshire council area does not include the City of Aberdeen, now a separate council area, from which its name derives. Together, the modern council area and the city formed historic...
.
The Marquesses of Aberdeen and Temair are related to the Marquesses of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created on 17 April 1599 for George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly. It is the oldest existing marquessate in Scotland, and the second-oldest in the British Isles, only the English marquessate of Winchester being older...
. Sir John Gordon (d. c. 1395) of Strathbogie, ancestor of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, was the brother of Elizabeth Gordon. She married Sir Alexander Seton (d. 1438) and was the mother of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly
Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly
Alexander Seton , 1st Earl of Huntly was a powerful 15th century Scottish magnate. He was knighted in 1439/40 and was Lord of Badenoch, & Cluny....
(ancestor of the Marquesses of Huntly).
Gordon Baronets, of Haddo (1642)
- Sir John Gordon, 1st BaronetSir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of HaddoSir John Gordon, 1st Baronet was a Scottish Royalist supporter of Charles I during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Gordon distinguished himself against the covenanters at Turriff, 1639, and joined Charles I in England...
(1610–1644) - Sir John Gordon, 2nd BaronetSir John Gordon, 2nd Baronet, of HaddoSir John Gordon, 2nd Baronet was the eldest son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo and Mary Forbes. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet on the execution of his father for treason on 19 July 1644, but due to his father's attainder, was under forfeiture until the Restoration in 1660...
(c. 1632–1665) - Sir George Gordon, 3rd BaronetGeorge Gordon, 1st Earl of AberdeenGeorge Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen , Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ; by his wife, Mary Forbes.-Education:...
(1637–1720) (created Earl of Aberdeen in 1682)
Earls of Aberdeen (1682)
- George Gordon, 1st Earl of AberdeenGeorge Gordon, 1st Earl of AberdeenGeorge Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen , Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ; by his wife, Mary Forbes.-Education:...
(1637–1720)- George Gordon, Lord Haddo (1674-d. between 1694-1708)
- William Gordon, 2nd Earl of AberdeenWilliam Gordon, 2nd Earl of AberdeenWilliam Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen , known between c. 1691 and 1720 as Lord Haddo, was a Scottish peer, Tory politician and Jacobite....
(1679–1745) - George Gordon, 3rd Earl of AberdeenGeorge Gordon, 3rd Earl of AberdeenGeorge Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen , styled Lord Haddo until 1745, was a Scottish peer. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1761, and from 1774 to 1790...
(1722–1801)- George Gordon, Lord HaddoGeorge Gordon, Lord HaddoGeorge Gordon, Lord Haddo was a Scottish Freemason and the eldest son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.On 18 June 1782, Haddo married Charlotte Baird, a sister of Sir David Baird, Bt. and they had seven children:...
(1764–1791)
- George Gordon, Lord Haddo
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of AberdeenGeorge Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of AberdeenGeorge Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen KG, KT, FRS, PC , styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a Scottish politician, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.-Early life:Born in Edinburgh on 28 January 1784, he...
(1784–1860) - George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of AberdeenGeorge Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of AberdeenGeorge John James Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen , styled Lord Haddo before 1860, was a British peer and Liberal Party politician....
(1816–1864) - George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of AberdeenGeorge Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of AberdeenGeorge Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen , styled Lord Haddo from 1860 to 1864, was a Scottish peer and sailor.Hamilton-Gordon was born at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the eldest son of the 5th Earl of Aberdeen...
(1841–1870) - John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of AberdeenJohn Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairJohn Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC , known as The Earl of Aberdeen from 1870 to 1916, was a Scottish politician...
(1847–1934) (created Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in 1916)
Marquesses of Aberdeen and Temair (1916)
- John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairJohn Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairJohn Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC , known as The Earl of Aberdeen from 1870 to 1916, was a Scottish politician...
(1847–1934) - George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairGeorge Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairGeorge Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair OBE , K.StJ , JP , styled Lord Haddo until 1916 and Earl of Haddo from 1916 to 1934, was a Scottish peer and politician....
(1879–1965) - Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairDudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairLieutenant-Colonel Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair DSO , styled Lord Dudley Gordon from 1916 to 1965, was a British peer, soldier, and industrialist....
(1883–1972) - David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairDavid Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairMajor David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, CBE, K.StJ was a British peer, soldier, and the son of Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair.-Life:...
(1908–1974) - Archibald Victor Dudley Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairArchibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairArchibald Victor Dudley Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair , styled Lord Archibald Gordon from 1965 to 1974, was a Scottish writer, broadcaster and peer...
(1913–1984) - Alastair Ninian John Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairAlastair Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairAlastair Ninian John Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair was a botanical artist and art critic who succeeded to a peerage later in life....
(1920–2002) - Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairAlexander Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairAlexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair DL is a British peer and the son of Alastair Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair....
(b. 1955)
The heir apparent
Heir apparent
An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....
is the present holder's eldest son George Ian Alastair Gordon, Earl of Haddo (b. 1983)
See also
- Baron StanmoreBaron StanmoreBaron Stanmore, of Great Stanmore in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1893 for the colonial administrator the Hon. Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon. He was the youngest son of the former Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen...
- Duff-Gordon BaronetsDuff-Gordon BaronetsThe Duff, later Duff Gordon Baronetcy, of Halkin in the County of Aberdeen, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 12 November 1813 for James Duff, British Consul in Cadiz, with remainder to his maternal nephew William Gordon...