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	EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF HUNTLY - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF HUNTLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His grandson George, 4th earl (1514 1562), who in 1548 was granted the earldom of Moray, played a leading part in the troubles of his time in Scotland, and in 1562 revolted against Queen Mary and was killed in fight at Corrichie, near Aberdeen.
		GEORGE GoiwoN, 1st marquess of Huntly (1562-1626), son of the 5th earl of Huntly, and of Anne, daughter of James Hamilton, earl of Arran and duke of Chatelherault, was born in 1562, and educated in France as a Roman Catholic.
		HUNTLY, a police burgh, burgh of barony and parish of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, capital of the district of Strathbogie.
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	George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly
		George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (1562 - June 13, 1636), was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in politics at the time of the union with England.
		The son of the 5th Earl of Huntly, and of Anne, daughter of James Hamilton, Earl of Arran and Duke of Chatelherault, he was educated in France as a Roman Catholic.
		Huntly then joined Erroll and James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, in a conspiracy to imprison the king, and they defeated the royal forces under Argyll at Glenlivet on October 3 1594, Huntly especially distinguishing himself.
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	Marquess Of Huntly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The subsidiary titles of the Marquess of Huntly are: Earl of Huntly (created 1445), Earl of Enzie (1599), Earl of Aboyne (1660), Earl of Norwich (1784), Lord Gordon of Badenoch (1445), Lord Gordon of Strathavon and Glenlivet (1660), Baron Gordon (1784) and Baron Meldrum (1815).
		All titles are in the Peerage of Scotland, except for the Earldom of Norwich and Barony of Gordon, in the Peerage of Great Britain, and the Barony of Meldrum, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
		George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly (1562-1636) (became Marquess of Huntly in 1599)
	www.wikiverse.org /marquess-of-huntly (295 words)

	DO WELL AND LET THEM SAY: GORDON
		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.
		As Marquess of Huntly he had a distinguished military career, commanding the regiment now known as the Gordon Highlanders, in Spain, Corsica, Ireland, and Holland, where he was severely wounded, and commanding a division in the Waicheren expedition of 1809.
		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.
	www.houseofgordon.com /HISTORY.html (5242 words)

	Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
		Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st marquess of
		Byng, Julian Hedworth George, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
		Carew, George, Baron Carew of Clopton and earl of Totnes
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	Huntly, George Gordon, 4th earl of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HUNTLY, GEORGE GORDON, 4TH EARL OF [Huntly, George Gordon, 4th earl of] 1514-62, Scottish nobleman.
		His son, George Gordon, 6th earl and 1st marquess of Huntly, 1562-1636, plotted with Spain for the restoration of Catholicism in Scotland and raised a rebellion in 1589.
		He was soon pardoned again and made (1599) marquess and lieutenant of the north, but he was in continual trouble with the Presbyterian Church, which doubted the sincerity of his abjuration of Catholicism, and he lost favor after the accession (1625) of Charles I. Author not available, HUNTLY, GEORGE GORDON, 4TH EARL OF.
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	ATHOLL - LoveToKnow Article on ATHOLL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		he JOHN MURRAY, 2nd earl and 1st marquess of Atholl (163 II 703), fu n of the 1st earl and of Jean, daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, was born on the 2nd of May 1631.
		IOHNMURRAY, 2nd marquess and 1st duke of Atholl (i66o1 724), s born on the 24th of February 1660, and was styled during fathers lifetime Lord l~1iurray, till 1696, when he was created ~l of Tullibardine.
		On the cession of George I. he was again dismissed from office, but at e rebellion of 1715, while three of his sons joined the Jacobites, remained faithful to the government, whom he assisted in nods ways, on the 4th of June 1717 apprehending Robert acgregor (Rob Roy), who, however, succeeded in escaping.
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	MyClan.com : Clan Gordon : Clan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Adam de Gordon was one of the wardens of the marches in 1300, and in 1305 was appointed one of the commissioners to negotiate with Edward I seeking settlement to the competition for the crown of Scotland.
		George, fourth Earl of Huntly, became Chancellor of Scotland in 1547 and was a close confidant of the regent, Mary of Guise, the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.
		Huntly’s pride was such that he found it impossible to co-operate with Montrose, and some historians have suggested that had he done so wholeheartedly, the whole course of the war in Scotland might have been very different.
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		George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon (1770-1836), Raised the Gordon Highlanders.
		Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby (1762-1847), Statesman.
		George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833), Diplomat and magnate.
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	Encyclopedia: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612 - 21 May 1650), was a Scottish nobleman and soldier, who initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King Charles I as the English Civil War developed.
		In the Scottish parliament which met in September, Montrose found himself in opposition to Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, who had made himself the representative of the Presbyterian and national party, and of the middle classes.
		Archibald Campbell Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll and 8th Earl of Argyll (1607 - 27 May 1661) was the de facto head of government in Scotland during most of the Scottish Civil War (which was part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-Graham,-1st-Marquess-of-Montrose (3623 words)

	ABERDEEN - LoveToKnow Article on ABERDEEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, IST EARL OF (1637-1720), lord chancellor of Scotland, son of Sir John Gordon, ist baronet of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, executed by the Presbyterians in 1644, was born on the 3rd of October 1637.
		Robert Gordon's College in Schoolhill was founded in 1729 by Robert Gordon of Straloch and further endowed in 1816 by Alexander Simpson of Collyhill.
		Originally devoted (as Gordon's Hospital) to the instruction and maintenance of the sons of poor burgesses of guild and trade in the city, it was reorganized in 1881 as a day and night school for secondary and technical education, and has since been unusually successful.
	www.96.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AB/ABERDEEN.htm (4931 words)

	1562 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		November 5 - In Scotland, the rebellion of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly is crushed by James Stewart, Earl of Moray at Corrichie.
		George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (died 1636)
		George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (born 1514)
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1562 (509 words)

	George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of Aberdeen - Britannica Concise
		Gordon, Lord George - English instigator of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots.
		Huntly, George Gordon, 1st Marquess and 6th Earl of - Scottish Roman Catholic conspirator who provoked personal wars in 16th-century Scotland but was saved by his friendship with James VI (James I of England).
		Gordon, Lord George - English lord and instigator of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots in London (1780).
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9354403 (378 words)

	Geordie
		According to Buchan "Geordie" was Sir George Gordon of Gight (1512-1562), Fourth Earl of Huntley, the son of the illegitimate daughter of James IV.
		Huntly was involved in plots for the Spanish Invasion of Scotland and engaged in open rebellion against James VI.
		Huntly was involved in the death of the Bonny Earl o' Moray.
	www.contemplator.com /scotland/geordie.html (345 words)

	Charles George Gordon -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Gordon distinguished himself as a young officer in the Crimean War (1853–56) and subsequently volunteered for the second Opium War (1856–60).
		In 1873 the Egyptian ruler Isma'il Pasha, who regularly employed Europeans, appointed Gordon governor of the province of Equatoria in southern Sudan (1874–76) and as governor-general of the Sudan (1874–80).
		The British officer known as Chinese Gordon was famous for his romantic adventures in Asian countries and for his dramatic death at the siege of Khartoum.
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	thePeerage.com - Person Page 1705
		He was the son of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly and Lady Henrietta Stuart.
		Sir George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon was born in 1649.
		He was the son of Lewis Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Huntly and Mary Grant.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1705.htm (823 words)

	Gordon family genealogy
		Married 1st, 1474, Lady Janet or Joanna Stewart, daughter of Sir John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl.
		George Gordon, 6th Earl and 1st Marquess of Huntly.
		Married Lady Henrietta Stewart (died 1642), daughter of Esm Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox (died 1583, son of John Stewart, Lord of Aubigny (died 1567)) and Katherine de Balsac (daughter of Guillaume de Balsac, Seigneur d'Entragues).
	www.kittybrewster.com /ancestry/gordon.htm (678 words)

	Duke of Gordon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The title Duke of Gordon has been created once in the Peerage of England and again in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
		The Dukedom was first created for the fourth Marquess of Huntly in 1684.
		George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon (1649 - 1716)
	www.therfcc.org /duke-of-gordon-256183.html (187 words)

	Regency Collection's Guide to AN INFAMOUS ARMY - People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He commands the British Light Brigade which lincludes the 1st Battalion of Colbornes' 52nd, the 71st Highlanders, he 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 95th regiment, Colonel Du Plat's Brigade of the KGL and Hew Halkett's Hanoverian Landwehr battalions.
		It was said that King George IV paid her so much attention he was in love with her, but it was her mother that was the King's mistress.
		It is Gordon who was sent, escorted by a squadron of the 10th hussars, to communicate with the Prussian head quarters, as to cooperation with the British army ordered to retire to the position in front of Waterloo on June 17th.
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	Gazetteer for Scotland: Scottish History Timeline: 17th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Heriot (Jinglin' Geordie) died - Goldsmith and burgess of Edinburgh
		George Gordon of Haddo (1st Earl of Aberdeen) born - Statesman and lawyer
		Patrick Maule (1st Earl of Panmure and Baron of Brechin and Navar) died - Royalist and soldier
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/timeline1699.html (2372 words)

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		George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
		George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
		George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
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	Clan Gordon from Scottish kilts
		Sir Adam, Lord of Gordon, warden of the marches in 1300, was appointed commissioner to negotiate with Edward I in 1305.
		George, 4th Earl of Huntly, became Chancellor of Scotland in 1547 and was one of Regent Mary of Guise’s close confidants.
		John, 7th Earl and 1st Marquess of Aberdeen, K.T., was governor-general of Canada and made Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
	www.scottishkilts.net /clan/clan_gordon.html (526 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hutchinson Encyclopedia 09-22-2003 Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885) British general sent to Khartoum in the Sudan in 1884 to rescue English garrisons that were under attack by the Mahdi...
		HUNTLY, GEORGE GORDON, 4TH EARL OF [Huntly, George Gordon, 4th earl of] 1514-62, Scottish...
		His son, George Gordon, 6th earl and 1st marquess of Huntly...
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	Category:Peers - InformationBlast
		Julian H.G. Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
		Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
		Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
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	Yewlett on Celtic Macbeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Gordon, 6th Earl and 1st Marquess of Huntly, leader of the Gordon Clan, opposed the Reformation and had become leader of the Catholic Party in Scotland.
		After Gordon led another rebellion in 1594, King James blew up his castle at Strathbogie and Gordon left the country for a time, until he received a second pardon from the King in 1599.
		The Catholic, Gordon clan wielded more influence in Scotland during the 16th and 17th centuries than any other, so much so that the Earl was nicknamed "The Cock of the North" by Mary of Guise, James's grandmother.
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	Index GH - GO
		George GORDON (4th Earl of Huntly) (1514 - 1562) ; Earl of MORAY
		George GORDON (1st Earl of ABERDEEN) (1637 - 1720) ; `Lord Haddo'
		George (1st Duke of) GORDON (1649 - 1716) ; 4th Marquess of Huntly
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	Ancestors of Sir William DOUGLAS
		He joined the Marquess of Montrose in 1644, fought at Philiphaugh, and escaped, but was taken later and imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle April 1646, buying his release in 1647.
		William married Margaret HAMILTON, daughter of 1st Lord Paisley Claud HAMILTON and Margaret SETON, in 1601.
		William next married Margaret Mary GORDON, daughter of 1st Marquess Of Huntley George GORDON and Henrietta STEWART, on 15 Sep 1632 in Scotland.
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	thePeerage.com - Person Page 2371
		A contract for the marriage of Elizabeth Lyon and Charles Gordon, 1st Earl of Aboyne was signed on 28 August 1665.
		He was the son of George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly and Lady Anne Campbell.
		He was created 1st Earl of Aboyne [Scotland] on 10 September 1660, for adhering firmly to the Royal cause during the Civil War.
	www.thepeerage.com /p2371.htm (703 words)

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