Alexander Gordon (1743 - 1827), 4th Duke of Gordon was a Scottish nobleman. // Events February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister February 21 - - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handels oratorio, Samson. ... 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
He was described by Kaimes as the "greatest subject in Britain".
He succeeded as Duke of Gordon in 1752 and was a Scottish representative peer from 1767, appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1775 and created a Peer of Great Britain (Earl of Norwich) in 1784. He was Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland from 1794 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1827. In the United Kingdom, representative peers were individuals elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to represent them in the British House of Lords. ... 1767 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... James VII ordained the modern Order. ... 1775 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Act of Union 1707 but before the Act of Union 1800. ... The title of Earl of Norwich was created several times in the Peerages of England and Great Britain. ...
He raised regiments ( the 92nd Highlanders) in 1794 for the War of American Rebellion and French Revolutionary Wars. He was responsible for establishing the village of Tomintoul in Banffshire in 1775. The Gordon Highlanders was a British Army infantry regiment from 1881 until 1994. ... The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. ... Tomintoul is a village in the old county of Banffshire, now subsumed within Moray council. ... Banffshire (Siorrachd Bhanbh in Gaelic) is a small traditional county in the north of Scotland. ...
The Great Seal of Scotland allows the monarch to authorise official documents without having to sign each document individually. ... James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839), was a British politician and writer. ... James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839), was a British politician and writer. ... The Great Seal of Scotland allows the monarch to authorise official documents without having to sign each document individually. ...
The younger son, laird of Stitchel in Roxburghshire, was the ancestor of William de Gordon of Stitchel and Lochinvar, founder of the Galloway branch of the family represented in the Scottish peerage by the dormant viscounty of Kenmure (q.v.), created in 1633; most of the Irish and Virginian Gordons are offshoots of this stock.
Sir Adam's daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married Sir Alexander Seton, and with her husband was confirmed in 1408 in the possession of the barony of Gordon and Huntly in Berwickshire and of the Gordon lands in Aberdeen.
Patrick Gordon (1635-1699) was born at Auchleuchries in Aberdeenshire, entered the service of Charles X. of Sweden in 1651 and served against the Poles.
Alexander, the elder, was, in 1449, created Earl of Huntly, with limitation to his heirs male, by Elizabeth Crichton, his third wife, they being obliged to bear the name and arms of Gordon.
A strange contrast to DukeAlexander was his third brother, that Lord George Gordon who, beginning life in the Navy, and afterwards entering Parliament, acquired notoriety as an agitator and leader of the No-Popery Riots of 1780, afterwards becoming a Jew, and dying at last in Newgate Gaol.
GORDON: This name is of territorial origin derived from lands of that name in Berwickshire which were held by twelve generations before Adam de Gordon, 8th of that Ilk, carried the Declaration of Arbroath to Rome in 1320.
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