George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen

George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen (19 June 1722 – 13 August 1801), styled Lord Haddo until 1745, was a Scottish peer. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1761, and from 1774 to 1790. He was against William Pitt the Younger's Regency Bill.^[1]

Family

Aberdeen was the son of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, by his second wife Lady Susan, daughter of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl.

Lord Aberdeen married Catherine Elizabeth Hanson, daughter of Oswald Hanson, in 1759; they had children:

• Lady Catherine Gordon (died 30 September 1784)
• Lady Anne Gordon
• Lady Susan Gordon (died 26 July 1795)
• Lady Mary Gordon (died August 1852)
• George Gordon, Lord Haddo (28 January 1764 - 2 October 1791) was the father of Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen,
• Hon. William Gordon (c. 1765 - 19 March 1845)^[2]

Lord Aberdeen died in August 1801, aged 79. The Countess of Aberdeen died in March 1817.^[3]

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