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  John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair - Biocrawler
John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 7th Earl of Aberdeen (August 3, 1847 - March 7, 1934) was Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.
Andrews and Oxford Universities, Lord Aberdeen succeeded to the earldom in 1870, assuming his seat in the House of Lords, where he was a close friend and supporter of Prime Minister Gladstone.
Lord Aberdeen was Governor General during a period of political transition, throughout the terms of four Prime Ministers — Sir John Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
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 HEREDITARY PEERAGES IN THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND BELOW THE RANK OF A MARQUESS
65 Earldom of Tullibardine 7 February 1676(The Earldom belongs to the Marquessate of Atholl and is held by the Duke of Atholl).
119 Lordship of Murray,Balvenie and Gask 7 February 1676 (The Lordship belongs to the Marquessate of Atholl and is held by the Duke of Atholl).
124 Lordship of Haddo,Methlic,Tarves and Kellie 30 November 1682(The Lordship belongs to the Earldom Aberdeen and is held by the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair).
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  George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen Summary
Aberdeen signed the Treaty of Töplitz with Austria and was present at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813.
On Peel's death in 1850, Aberdeen was recognized as the leader of the Peelites (Tory liberals), and in December 1852 he became prime minister of a coalition government.
Aberdeen, as a politician and diplomat, was a compromiser.
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  Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lord Aberdeen was governor general of Canada from 1893 to 1898.
In Britain, Aberdeen sat in the House of Lords as a Liberal, and he was a strong believer in Liberal policies.
Aberdeen returned to England before the expiry of his term, partly because he lost money investing in an orchard in Vernon, B.C. He later served as lord lieutenant of Ireland (1905-15).
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC (3 August 1847–7 March 1934 Tarland) was Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.
Lord Aberdeen became Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire in 1880 and held the office of High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1881 to 1885 and in 1915.
Lord Aberdeen was President of the Highland and Agricultural Society from 1901 to 1902 and Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews between 1913 and 1916.
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  Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lord Aberdeen was governor general of Canada from 1893 to 1898.
In Britain, Aberdeen sat in the House of Lords as a Liberal, and he was a strong believer in Liberal policies.
Aberdeen returned to England before the expiry of his term, partly because he lost money investing in an orchard in Vernon, B.C. He later served as lord lieutenant of Ireland (1905-15).
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 University Of Aberdeen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
University of Aberdeen - The University of Aberdeen is one of the ancient universities of Scotland.
Marquess of Aberdeen 1816-1864 George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen 1816-1864 George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen c.
Earls of Aberdeen 1847-1934 became Marquess of Aberdeen 1637-1720 William Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair 1879-1965 Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Earl of Haddo is the largest encyclopedia written in the north of Scotland.
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 Earl of Aberdeen
The Earl of Aberdeen is a title in the Scottish peerage.
The later holders of the title have also been Marquesses of Aberdeen and Temair[?].
Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair[?]; 9th Earl of Aberdeen (1883-1972)
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 Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of, GOVERNOR GENERAL of Canada 1893-98 (b at Edinburgh, Scot 3 Aug 1847; d at Tarland, Scot 7 Mar 1934).
A social crusader of great zeal and piety, he and Lady ABERDEEN, his irrepressible wife, devoted much of their vice-regal time in Canada to good works.
A section of the Aberdeens' reminiscences, We Twa, 2 vols (1925) is devoted to their Canadian experiences.
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 List of Marquesses in the peerages of the British Isles - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This is a list of present Marquesses in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Marquesses of the United Kingdom and of Ireland after 1801
List of Marquesses in the peerages of the British Isles, Order of precendence, Marquesses of England, Marquesses of Scotland, Marquesses of Great Britain, Marquesses of Ireland prior to 1801, Marquesses of the United Kingdom and of Ireland after 1801, Marquessates and Lists of peerages.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 4 January 1916, along with the title Earl of Haddo, for the 7th Earl of Aberdeen.
Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1883-1972)
Archibald Victor Dudley Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1913-1984)
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 7727
She married Sir Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, son of Sir Alastair Ninian John Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Anne Barry, in 1981.
He was the son of Sir Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Cécile Elizabeth Drummond.
She married Sir David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, son of Sir Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Cécile Elizabeth Drummond, on 29 April 1939.
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 Aberdeen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Aberdeen Praya Road - Aberdeen Praya Road (香港仔海旁道) is a road in Aberdeen on the southern Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong.
Marquess of Aberdeen (1847-1934) (became Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1847-1934) George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen is a title in the Scottish peerage.
The title Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860) George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen (1682) George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (1722-1801) George Hamilton Gordon, 6th Earl of Haddo (1916), Viscount Formartine (1682), Viscount Gordon (1814) and Lord Haddo, Methlic, Tarves and Kellie (1682).
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 Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Gordon, 1st Marquess of, GOVERNOR GENERAL of Canada 1893-98 (b at Edinburgh, Scot 3 Aug 1847; d at Tarland, Scot 7 Mar 1934).
A social crusader of great zeal and piety, he and Lady ABERDEEN, his irrepressible wife, devoted much of their vice-regal time in Canada to good works.
Aberdeen's refusal to accept appointments made by Sir Charles TUPPER, following his electoral defeat in 1896, produced great controversy.
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 John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC (3 August 1847–7 March 1934 Tarland) was Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.
Lord Aberdeen became Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire in 1880 and held the office of High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1881 to 1885 and in 1915.
Lord Aberdeen was President of the Highland and Agricultural Society from 1901 to 1902 and Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews between 1913 and 1916.
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 Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1883-1972)
Archibald Victor Dudley Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1913-1984)
Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (b.
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 ISHBEL MAJORIBANKS ABEERBEEN, Marchioness
When the Earl of Aberdeen was about to finish his term of office as Governor General of Canada, Lady Aberdeen was commended "for her efforts in the direction of elevating the women of Canada".
Lord Aberdeen, as Governor General of CANADA, was in Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 24, 1897, the anniversary of John Cabot's landing in Canada, to unveil a commemorative plaque for the explorer at Province House.
Ishbel, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair: The Musings of a Scottish Granny.
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 John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Governor General biography - S9.com
Lord Aberdeen was Governor General during a period of political transition, throughout the terms of four Prime Ministers - Sir John Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Lord Aberdeen was well equipped to take on the challenges of the position, with the experience and knowledge from his previous travels in Canada, and family history of success in this country - his father was instrumental in boundary negotiations between the United States and Canada.
Ottawa's Aberdeen Pavilion, built in 1898, was named in his honour and he presided over its opening.
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 Aberdeen, earl of - Archontology.org
The grandson of the British prime minister Earl of Aberdeen, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon was educated at St. Andrews University and University College, Oxford.
Aberdeen entered the House of Lords and was a close friend and supporter of the British prime minister William Gladstone.
Made Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire in 1880, Aberdeen served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland briefly in 1886 and again 1905-1915.
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 The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
Sir John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, 7th Earl and 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
It was also an era of controversy marred by competing issues, from the abolition of separate French schools in Manitoba — which created a unity crisis — to the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the discovery of gold in the Yukon Territory.
Following his education at St. Andrews and Oxford Universities, Lord Aberdeen succeeded to the earldom in 1870, assuming his seat in the House of Lords, where he was a close friend and supporter of Prime Minister Gladstone.
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 Clan Gordon
His son, Sir John Gordon, was butchered by a bungling executioner at the Cross of Aberdeen, while Mary was compelled by her brother to look on at the horrid end of the man whom, it is said, she had once dearly loved.
During the Rising of 1715, while Marquess of Huntly, he joined the forces of the Earl of Mar at Perth with two thousand three hundred men, and he was present at the battle of Sheriffmuir; but he received pardon and succeeded to the Dukedom in 1716.
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.
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 Peer at play in the world's brothels - smh.com.au
The 6th Marquess was born Alastair Ninian John Gordon, the youngest of five children and the fourth son of Lord Dudley Gordon, who would become the 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair on the death of his brother George in 1965.
John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen, was advanced to the rank of marquess in 1916.
His grandson, the 6th Marquess, reckoned, however, to have inherited his genes from his ancestress Nell Gwyn and the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, known as the "Wicked Earl", a man notable for his prodigious sexual energy.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 2483
     Sir George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair was born on 20 January 1879 at Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London, England.
He was the son of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Dame Isabel Maria Marjoribanks.
     Sir Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair was educated at Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, London, England.
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 THe Hamilton Gordon Line
Sir John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 7th Earl of Aberdeen (August 3, 1847 - March 7, 1934) was Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.
Sir David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair was the son of Sir Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Cécile Elizabeth Drummond.
George GORDON 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen(2) (2906) was born on 20 Jan 1879.
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 Lord Aberdeen
He succeeded to the title of 5th Earl of Aberdeen [S., 1682] on 14 December 1860.2 He succeeded to the title of 5th Viscount of Formartine [S., 1682] on 14 December 1860.
He succeeded to the title of 2nd Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, co. Aberdeen on 14 December 1860.
Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl and 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair b.
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 Guardian | The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
The unexpected inheritance, which came to Alastair in 1984 when he was 63, did not change his mischievous ways, particularly his enjoyment of shocking the stuffy establishment by writing repeatedly about his experiences in the fashionable bordellos of Knightsbridge and the Middle East.
He inherited the family title following the death of his older brother, the 5th marquess, who was better known as Archie Gordon, and had been a BBC lobby correspondent and editor of The Week In Parliament (1946-66) before he himself had belatedly inherited in 1974, at the age of 61.
There June, the marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, and widow of Alastair's eldest brother, the 4th marquess, ran famous musical festivals featuring the likes of Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten.
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 British Columbia Archival Information Network Display
John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, first Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, was born in Edinburgh in 1847.
The Aberdeen family first moved to the Coldstream Ranch in 1894 and then continued to use it as an escape from public duties until they left Canada for good in 1898.
Lord Aberdeen had built extensive irrigation and waterworks and had begun to subdivide the ranch into 10 to 40 acre lots, making land available for new settlers and encouraging development in the area.
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 DO WELL AND LET THEM SAY: GORDON   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His son, Sir John Gordon, was butchered by a bungling executioner at the Cross of Aberdeen, while Mary was compelled by her brother to look on at the horrid end of the man whom, it is said, she had once dearly loved.
During the Rising of 1715, while Marquess of Huntly, he joined the forces of the Earl of Mar at Perth with two thousand three hundred men, and he was present at the battle of Sheriffmuir; but he received pardon and succeeded to the Dukedom in 1716.
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.
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