George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen
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George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen (19 June 1722 – 13 August 1801), 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. He was against William Pitt the Younger
's Regency Bill.
, by his second wife Lady Susan, daughter of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
.
Lord Aberdeen married Catherine Elizabeth Hanson, daughter of Oswald Hanson, in 1759; they had children:
Lord Aberdeen died in August 1801, aged 79. The Countess of Aberdeen died in March 1817.
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 1761, and from 1774 to 1790. He was against William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt the Younger was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24 . He left office in 1801, but was Prime Minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806...
's Regency Bill.
Family
Aberdeen was the son 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....
, by his second wife Lady Susan, daughter of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, KT, PC was a Scottish nobleman, politician, and soldier. He served in numerous positions during his life, and fought in the Glorious Revolution for William III and Mary II....
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Lord Aberdeen married Catherine Elizabeth Hanson, daughter of Oswald Hanson, in 1759; they had children:
- Lady Catherine Gordon (died 30 September 1784)
- Lady Anne Gordon
- Lady Susan Gordon (died 26 July 1795)
- Lady Mary Gordon (died August 1852)
- 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:...
(28 January 1764 - 2 October 1791) was the father of Prime Minister 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...
, - Hon. William Gordon (c. 1765 - 19 March 1845)
Lord Aberdeen died in August 1801, aged 79. The Countess of Aberdeen died in March 1817.