George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (3 October 163720 April 1720), was a Lord Chancellor of Scotland.
Early life Gordon, born on 3 October 1637, the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, (executed in 1644); and his wife, Mary Forbes. He graduated MA, and was chosen professor at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1658. Subsequently, he travelled and studied civil law abroad.
Career
Family He married Anne Lockhart, daughter and (eventual) sole heiress of George Lockhart of Tarbrax and Anne Lockhart. They had several children: John Gordon (1673–1675) George Gordon, Lord Haddo (1674after 1694), predeceased his father Lady Anne Gordon (1675–1709), married Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton James Gordon (), predeceased his father Lady Jean Gordon () William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen (1679–30 March 1746) Lady Martha Gordon (), married John Udny of Udny in March 1701 Lady Mary Gordon (1682–1753), married Alexander Fraser, 13th Lord Saltoun, 26 October 1707 Lady Margaret Gordon ()
His only surviving son, William, succeeded him as 2nd earl of Aberdeen.
He died on 20 April 1720, having amassed a large fortune.
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Attribution Endnotes: Letters to George, earl of Aberdeen (with memoir: Spalding Club, 1851); Hist. Account of the Senators of the College of Justice, by G. Brunton and D. Haig (1832), p. 408; G. Crawfurd's Lives of the Officers of State (1726), p. 226; Memoirs of Affairs in Scotland, by Sir G. Mackenzie (1821), p. 148; Sir J. Lauder's (Lord Fountainhall) Journals (Scottish Hist. Society, vol. xxxvi., 1900); J. Mackay's Memoirs (1733), p. 215; A. Lang's Hist. of Scotland, iii. 369, 376.
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