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	Aberdeen - LoveToKnow 1911
		Aberdeen is served by the Caledonian, Great North of Scotland and North British railways (occupying a commodious joint railway station), and there is regular communication by sea with London and the chief ports on the eastern coast of Great Britain and the northern shores of the Continent.
		Aberdeen University consists of King's College in Old Aberdeen, founded by Bishop Elphinstone in 1494, and Marischal College, in Broad Street, founded in 1593 by George Keith, 5th earl Marischal, which were incorporated in 1860.
		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.1911encyclopedia.org /Aberdeen (2881 words)

	George Gordon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Gordon (politician) (1751–1793), Lord George Gordon, eccentric politician
		George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
		George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1879–1965), 8th Earl of Aberdeen
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Gordon (202 words)

	George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Hamilton Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, KG, KT, PC (28 January 1784–14 December 1860) was a Scottish Tory/Peelite politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.
		Born in Edinburgh on 28 January 1784, he was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo.
		As reports returned detailing the mis-management of the conflict Russell resigned; and on 29 January 1855 a motion for the appointment of a select committee to enquire into the conduct of the war, was carried by a large majority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Earl_of_Aberdeen (983 words)

	George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)
		George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)
		In 1801 Aberdeen's grandfather died and the young man succeeded to the Earldom at the age of 17.
		Aberdeen proved to be inept in handling the conduct of the war and in January 1855 John Arthur Roebuck, MP for Sheffield proposed a Committee of Inquiry to investigate the conduct of the war.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/pms/aberdeen.html (1759 words)

	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.
		The 4th Earl known as "Cock of the North" had aspirations to marry one of his sons to Mary, Queen of Scots and through a series of misunderstandings there was a rebellion which brought about the collapse of Gordon power after defeat at Corrichie in 1562.
	www.houseofgordon.com /HISTORY.html (5242 words)

	GORDON - Online Information article about GORDON
		barony of Gordon and Huntly in Berwickshire and of the Gordon lands in Aberdeen.
		Lord George Gordon (q.v.) was a younger son of the 3rd duke.
		The dukedom of Gordon was revived in 1876 in favour of the 6th duke of Richmond, who thenceforward was styled duke of Richmond and Gordon.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GORDON.html (1249 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Gordon enjoyed being at the centre of British politics and formed friendships with members of the cabinet the Duke of Newcastle and William Ewart Gladstone.
		In a province that prided itself on its loyalist traditions, Gordon, as the queen’s representative and the son of a British prime minister, could be sure of support among both the landed and professional classes and those farmers, woodsmen, and labourers who were descended from loyalist regiments.
		Gordon “fully concurred” with the opinion of Nova Scotia’s lieutenant governor, Lord Mulgrave [Phipps*], who in 1858 had written of the “folly of federation,” but initially he did not so completely agree with Mulgrave’s support of a legislative union of the Maritime colonies.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41527 (2730 words)

	George IV - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
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	Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 4TH EARL OF [Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of], 1784-1860, British statesman.
		As prime minister (1852-55), Aberdeen headed a brilliant coalition ministry and was quite successful in home affairs.
		He was, however, unable to prevent Viscount Palmerston and others in his cabinet from involving England on the side of the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Aberdeen-G1H1G1.asp (263 words)

	Fragments of History and Banff Burials
		Sadly, Lord Haddo was never to become Earl of Aberdeen: in 1791 he was killed at Gight by a fall from his horse.
		George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen Son of Lord Haddo and Carlotte Baird George did not go back to his grandfather at Haddo after his mothers death, but turned to his guardians, William Pitt, the Prime Minister and others for help.
		The Earl became Prime Minister in 1852, and was created a Knight of the Thistle in 1808, and elected a knight of the Garter in 1855.
	www.bairdnet.com /aberdeen/article.html (761 words)

	Earl of Aberdeen
		In 1813 the Earl of Aberdeen was sent as a special ambassador to Vienna by Lord Liverpool.
		The Earl of Aberdeen became Prime Minister after the resignation of the Earl of Derby in 1852.
		Aberdeen was blamed for the mismanagement of the war and he was forced to resign in February 1855.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRaberdeen.htm (242 words)

	Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
		Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl Of Aberdeen
		British Tory politician, prime minister from 1852 until 1855, when he resigned because of criticism provoked by the miseries and mismanagement of the Crimean War.
		The blue bands are a shade known as ‘celeste’, said to be the colour of the sky which inspired Argentine revolutionary Manuel Belgrano before battle.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0017343.html (229 words)

	George Hamilton-Gordon Biography
		George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (January 28, 1784 - December 14, 1860) was a Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.
		He was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo.
		He was one of the British representatives at the Congress of Chatillon in February 1814, and at the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in the following May. Returning home he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen (1814), and made a member of the privy council.
	www.ofletters.com /a/George_Hamilton-Gordon_biography.html (876 words)

	Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen -
		George Gordon was the grandson of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.
		For a few years he did the Grand Tour of the Continent, becoming especially fond of Greece: he was later president of the Society of Antiquaries from 1812 to 1846.
		From 1813 to 1855 he was more or less continuously in politics, in Parliament, and first as a diplomat (for which he was made Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen), then chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1828, and foreign secretary from 1828 to 1830 and 1841 to 1846.
	famous.adoption.com /famous/aberdeen-george-hamilton-gordon.html (391 words)

	Aberdeen George Hamilton-Gordon 4th Earl of - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of (1784-1860), British diplomat and statesman, prime minister of Great Britain and Ireland (1852-1855)....
		By the early 1850s, however, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia believed he saw another opportunity to further Russian influence by intervention in Turkish...
		This obituary for George Hamilton-Gordon appeared in The Times on December 15, 1860.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Aberdeen_George_Hamilton-Gordon_4th_Earl_of.html (126 words)

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		Viceroy Earl Canning dies in Calcutta of jungle fever and is buried in a garden at Barrackpore.
		Edmund Cromley, the Earl of Leardon was arrested for attempted Regicide.
		Doctor James Howard Harris, 4th Earl of Malmesbury, dies after a period of illness due to complications related to his scientific research.
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	Walkabout - Aberdeen
		Situated in the midst of pastoral and agricultural countryside, Aberdeen is a small township located on the side of a hill beside the Hunter River between Muswellbrook and Scone.
		The value of his property was inflated when he persuaded the government to lay out the township of Aberdeen in 1838 by the river crossing.
		It is here that the Dartbrook estate was established, granted to George Smith Hall who, like many early settlers, used the property as a base while sending his progeny north to work large cattle runs.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/NSWAberdeen.shtml (1843 words)

	Crimean War - ninemsn Encarta
		He felt confident of support from Austria in return for the aid Russia had given the Habsburg dynasty during the revolutions of 1848 to 1850.
		He also believed, mistakenly, that the British government of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of Aberdeen, would collaborate in a partition of the Balkan territories controlled by the Turks.
		The immediate cause for Russian intervention was a dispute between Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians over control of the holy places in Palestine, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579201/Crimean_War.html (960 words)

	Clan Gordon
		GORDON’s commandant was Czech aristocrat, Generalissimus Duke Albrecht of Valdstejn (Waldstein, Wallenstein).
		Elizabeth, wife of The 4th Duke of Gordon built a memorial to her husband.
		Gordon School, designed by Archibald Simpson, is still in use today as the High School of Huntly.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/dtog/gordon2.html (5073 words)

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		The letters to George Thomas from his wife Minerva ranging in date from April 7, 1862 to March 23, 1863, offer a poignent glimpse of life at home while the men were off to war.
		[Earle, Thomas, comp.] The Life, Travels and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy, Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, with a Sketch of Cotemporary [sic] Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti.
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	Duchy of Lancaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Generally any Act of Parliament relating to these sorts of rights specifically set out the special exemptions for two Duchies and specify the extent to they apply to the Duchy.
		George William Frederick Villiers 4th Earl of 1840-1841
		George William Frederick Villiers 4th Earl of 1864-1866
	www.freeglossary.com /Chancellor_of_the_Duchy_of_Lancaster (779 words)

	thePeerage.com - nil and others
		He was the son of Sir George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen and Lady Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton.
		He is the son of Sir Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Joanna Clodagh Houldsworth.
		She is the daughter of Sir Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Joanna Clodagh Houldsworth.
	www.thepeerage.com /p34.htm (785 words)

	Meade George Gordon - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Meade George Gordon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Meade, George Gordon (1815-1872), American army officer, born in Cádiz, Spain, and educated at the United States Military Academy.
		Wilderness, Battle of the, battle of the American Civil War, fought on May 5-6, 1864, in a densely thicketed woodland known as the Wilderness, in...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Meade_George_Gordon.html (116 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Wales: Scottish History Timeline
		Publication of "An Inquiry into the Nature of Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith marks the transition of Europe from a late medieval to a modern economy and will continue its appeal and great influence for centuries.
		Birth of George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, British foreign secretary who will help settle the long-standing disputes between Canada and the United States over their eastern and western boundaries.
		Thanks to Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, the Act of 1746 that had forbidden Highland dress and the pipes is repealed.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/timeline/tl10.html (700 words)

	gordon02
		George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly (d c08.06.1501, Chancellor of Scotland)
		Some sources report that Annabella was mother of only one daughter, the absence of any male issue probably being part of the reason why George divorced her.
		George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Earl of Moray (b 1514, d Corrichie 28.10.1562)
	www.stirnet.com /HTML/genie/british/gg/gordon02.htm (811 words)

	gordon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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).
		See live article Gordon Gordon is the name of several places in the United States of America: Gordon, Alabama Gordon, Georgia Gordon, Nebraska Gordon, Ohio Gordon, Pennsylvania Gordon, Texas Gordon, Wisconsin (...
		Earl; his second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, K.C.B.; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon; and his youngest son Arthur Hamilton, was...
	www.byglrb.com /jewelry/gordon (629 words)

	thePeerage.com - nil and others
		William Gordon was born between 1730 and 1737.
		He was the son of Sir William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen and Lady Anne Gordon.
		She was the daughter of Sir George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen and Lady Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton.
	www.thepeerage.com /p37.htm (766 words)

	Royal Descents of famous people
		William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, born 1720, Prime Minister.
		George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, born 1784, Prime Minister.
		Descents from George II [descendant of George I]
	humphrysfamilytree.com /famous.descents.html (2821 words)

	gordon06
		Families covered: Gordon of Aberdeen, Gordon of Braco, Gordon of Fyvie Castle, Gordon of Haddo, Gordon of Methlic
		Sir George Gordon, 3rd Bart of Haddo, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (b 03.10.1637, d 20.04.1720, Lord of Session as Lord Haddo)
		(1671) Anne Lockhart (bur 19.07.1707, dau of George Lockhart of Torbrecks / Tarbrax)
	www.stirnet.com /HTML/genie/british/gg/gordon06.htm (633 words)

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