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  ABERDEEN - LoveToKnow Article on ABERDEEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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.
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 was settled in 1880, and was chartered as a city in 1883.
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 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 sympathised with the Greeks and wanted to help them; the Conference of London in February 1830 appeared to have settled the matter by granting autonomy to the Greeks; unfortunately, the Greeks wanted independence and were not satisfied with the settlement.
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.
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 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The Right Honourable George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, PC (January 28, 1784–December 14, 1860) was a Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.
Returning home he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Viscount Gordon, of Aberdeen in the County of Aberdeen (1814), and made a member of the Privy Council.
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.
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Aberdeen, city, largest in north-eastern Scotland, situated on the North Sea at the mouths of the Dee and Don rivers.
Aberdeen City unitary authority forms an enclave on the eastern coast of Aberdeenshire unitary...
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 George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen - Wikipedia
ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4TH EARL OF (1784-1860), English statesman, was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of William Baird of Newbyth, Haddingtonshire, and grandson of George, 3rd earl of Aberdeen.
Before this time, however, he had become earl of Aberdeen on his grandfather's death in 1801, and had travelled over a large part of the continent of Europe, meeting on his journeys Napoleon Bonaparte and other persons of distinction.
Russell resigned; and on the 29th of January 1855 a motion by J. Roebuck, for the appointment of a select committee to enquire into the conduct of the War, was carried in the House of Commons by a large majority.
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 AllRefer.com - Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of, British And Irish History, Biographies
Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of[ab´´udEn´] Pronunciation Key, 1784–1860, British statesman.
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.
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 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about George ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (January 28, 1784 - December 14, 1860), Tory politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1852-55.
He was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo.
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.
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 George Gordon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 11031
Sir George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen was the son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo and Charlotte Baird.
Lady Georgiana Gordon was the daughter of Sir Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon and Jane Maxwell.
Sir Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon was the son of Sir Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon and Lady Catherine Gordon.
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen
The 4th Earl of Aberdeen was born in Edinburgh.
Aberdeen resigned as prime minister due to losses suffered in the Crimean War (1853-56) and what was termed military mismanagement.
It was the siege that led to Aberdeen's resignation.
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George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), Prime Minister.
Aberdeen, a politician and former Foreign Secretary, is shown with a sketch of the Acropolis in his hands, a Greek vase on the table and a model of the Parthenon behind, expressions of his antiquarian interests.
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 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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 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.
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The British statesman George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), was noted for his work in the area of foreign affairs.
George Hamilton Gordon was born on Jan. 28, 1784, in Edinburg, Scotland.
His father died when George was 7 and his mother when he was 11; he was brought up by his guardians, William Pitt and Henry Dundas (Lord Melville).
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 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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 one of the British representatives at the in February 1814, and at the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in the following May.
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 Details of Aberdeen City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Aberdeen City lies at a latitude of 57° 9' N, occupying, for the most part, undulating land between the mouths of the River Don to the north and the River Dee to the south.
Robert Gordon's College, which was founded in 1730 and became a noted centre for the teaching of education, was constituted as a university in 1992.
Aberdeen is Scotland's primary fish processing centre and at its Offshore Technology Park and Science and Technology Park innovative research is undertaken by a range of private companies whose work complements the research carried out by Aberdeen's two universities and eight scientific institutes.
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Stanley, a descendant of the Earls of Derby, was educated at Eton CollegeEton and Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1832 he was created Earl of DerbyBaron Stanley of Bickerstaffe and entered the House of Lords.
Derby and Disraeli were unable to achieve a parliamentary majority, however, and the government collapsed in December of the same year, making way for a Peelite-Whig coalition under George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of AberdeenLord Aberdeen/.
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 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.
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 The Hutchinson Dictionary of British History: Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)@ ...
Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)
British Tory politician, prime minister 1852-55, when he resigned because of the criticism aroused by the miseries and mismanagement of the Crimean War.
Born in Edinburgh and educated at Harrow and St John's College, Cambridge, Aberdeen began his career as a diplomat; he was ambassador in Vienna 1813 and signed the Treaty of...
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 Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of, Viscount Gordon Of Aberdeen, Viscount Of Formartine, Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves, And Kellie
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.
In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
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 The Ultimate William Molesworth - American History Information Guide and Reference
On the passing of the Reform Act 1832 he was returned to Parliament for the eastern division of Cornwall, to support the ministry of Lord Grey.
Through Charles Buller he made the acquaintance of George Grote and James Mill, and in April 1835 he founded, in conjunction with Roebuck, the London Review, as an organ of the Philosophic Radicals.
In January 1853 Lord Aberdeen included him in the cabinet as First Commissioner of Works, the chief work by which his name was brought into prominence at this time being the construction of the new Westminster Bridge; he also was the first to open Kew Gardens on Sundays.
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 Charles Arbuthnot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marcia's portrait was painted by J Hoppney and an engraving of the portrait was made by Reynolds.
Charles Arbuthnot married second at Fulbeck, 31 January 1814, Harriet Fane (born 10 September 1793; died 2 August 1834; buried Fulbeck), one of 14 children, daughter of General the Hon Henry Fane of Fulbeck, Lincolnshire (younger brother of John, 9th Earl of Westmorland).
The Duke of Wellington was much attached to Mr and Mrs Arbuthnot and Charles, during the latter years of his life, lived in the Duke's house as his confidential friend; their story is told in "Wellington and the Arbuthnots", E A Smith 1994.
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 Aberdeen --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
It constitutes the council area of Aberdeen, an enclave within the surrounding council area of Aberdeenshire, which was also the name of the historic county of which Aberdeen was the seat.
Aberdeen is a busy seaport, a centre of Scotland's fishing industry, and the commercial capital of northeastern Scotland.
Aberdeen is the principal trading centre for the nearby 113-square-mile (293-square-km) Aberdeen Proving Ground (established 1917), a U.S. Army test site for guns, ammunition, and military vehicles; one...
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 2092
Lady Frances Howard was the daughter of William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow and Hon.
Lady Harriet Gordon was the daughter of Sir George John James Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen and Mary Baillie.
Sir George John James Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen was the son of Sir George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen and Harriet Douglas.
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 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4to earl de Aberdeen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4to earl de Aberdeen (de enero el 28 de 1784 - de diciembre el 14 de 1860) era un político del tory que sirvió como primer ministro del Reino Unido a partir de 1852 hasta 1855.
Antes de esto, sin embargo, él tenía earl convertido de Aberdeen en la muerte de su abuelo en 1801, y había viajado todo sobre Europa.
Volviendo a casa lo crearon un par del Reino Unido como vizconde Gordon de Aberdeen (1814), e hizo a miembro del consejo privy.
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