Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon

Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon KT (April 27 1720 – 5 August 1752), styled Marquess of Huntly until 1728, was a Scottish peer.^[1]

Gordon was the son of the 2nd Duke of Gordon and was named after his father's close, Jacobite friend, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1752. In 1748, he was made a Knight of the Thistle.

Family

Gordon married Lady Catherine Gordon (c. 1725 – 10 December 1779), daughter of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, on 3 September 1741; they had children:

Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743–1827),
Lord William Gordon (1744–1823), married Hon. Frances Ingram-Shepheard (daughter of Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine),
Lord George Gordon (1751–1793),
Lady Susan Gordon (c. 1752–1814), married first John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland, and second, Colonel John Woodford, having issue from both marriages.^[2]

Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Alexander Gordon	Duke of Gordon 1728–1752	Succeeded by Alexander Gordon

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Name	Gordon, Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of
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Date of birth	1720
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Date of death	1752
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