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| | DO WELL AND LET THEM SAY: GORDON |
 | | The Earl had in 1424 been one of the hostages sent to England as security for the ransom of James I., and his son George, the second Earl, married the Princess Joanna, daughter of that King, from whom all the later heads of the house have the royal Stewart blood in their veins. |
 | | Earl George’s second son, Adam, Lord of Aboyne, marrying Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, became Earl of Sutherland in her right, and ancestor of the great Sutherland family, while the third son, Sir William Gordon, became ancestor of the Gordons of Gight, and so of George Gordon, Lord Byron, in the nineteenth century. |
 | | George, the fourth Earl, was the distinguished statesman who was Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister at the time of the Crimean War; and the present head of the house, who is his grandson, has also held many high offices, including those of Governor-General of Canada and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. |
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