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Greenwich Park 1845–60; Chancellor of King's Coll., Aberdeen, 1847–60; Elder Br. of the Trin. House 1853–60. He m., 1stly, 28 July 1805, at Bentley Priory, in Stanmore, Midx. (spec, lie), Catherine Elizabeth, 1st surv. da. of John James (Hamilton), 1st Marquess of Abercorn, by his 1st wife, Catherine, da. of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart. She was b. 10 Jan. 1784, and d. s.p.m.s., 29 Feb. 1812, at Argyll House, St. James's. He m. 2ndly, 8 July 1815, Harriet, styled Dowager Viscountess Hamilton (being widow of James, s. and h. ap. of the afsd. 1st Marquess of Abercorn), 2nd da. of Hon. John Douglas (s. of James, XV (14th) Earl of Morton [S.], by Frances, da. of Edward (Lascelles), 1st Earl of Harewood. She was b. 8 June 1792, and d. 26 Aug. 1833, at Argyll House. He d. there, 14 Dec. 1860, in his 77th year, and was bur. at Stanmore, as were both his wives.[1] | |
| [...... Gordon, styled Lord Haddo, s. and h. ap., by 1st wife, b. and d. 23 Nov. 1810.] | |
| V. 1860. | 5. George John James (Hamilton Gordon), Earl of Aberdeen, &c. [S.], also Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, 1st surv. s. and h. by 2nd wife, b. 28 Sep. 1816, at Bentley Priory; styled Lord Haddo till 1860. Ed. at Harrow, and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge; M.A. 1837; M.P. (Liberal) for co. Aberdeen 1854–60. He m., 5 Nov. 1840, at Taymouth Castle, co. Perth, Mary, sister of George, l0th Earl of Haddington [S.], and 2nd da. of George Baillie, of Jerviswood, by Mary, da. of Sir James Pringle, 4th Bart. [S.]. He d. 22 Mar. 1864, at Haddo House, aged 47. His widow d. 3 Apr. 1900, at Kennet, Alloa, aged 85. Will pr. Dec. 1900, at £15,845. Both were bur. at Methlic. |
| VI. 1864. | 6. George (Hamilton Gordon), Earl of Aberdeen, &c. [S.], also Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, s. and h., b. 10 Dec. 1841, at Holyrood; styled Lord Haddo from 1860 to 1864. He d. unm. (being drowned while serving in the ship Hera on a voyage from Boston to Melbourne), 27 Jan. 1870, aged 28. |
| VII. 1870. | 7. John Campbell (Hamilton Gordon), Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount of Formartine, Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves and Kellie [S.]; also Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, |
- ↑ When a lad he avoided the control of his harsh and negligent grandfather by appointing as curators Dundas and Pitt, who forced the old man to agree to his being sent to Cambridge, Pitt drily writing that he "did not concur with his Lordship in considering that rank superseded the necessity for education"! He was a sound
Earl of Zetland, K.G. 1872; and (12) The Duke of Argyll [S.], K.G. 1883. Of these twelve, only four, (viz. those whose names are in italics) one of whom was an English Duke, and another Prime Minister and senior K.T., have retained both orders. As to (2) the Duke of Hamilton [S.], he d. within three weeks of his election, and it is not improbable that he might have resigned the order of the Thistle, according to precedent, before his installation, though he apparently wished to retain both orders. See Beltz, Order of the Garter, p. cxxiv, note. In the plate affixed to his stall in 1836 (124 years later) he is described as K.T.
