Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, (31 March 1955 – 12 March 2020) was a
Scottish peer and the son of
Alastair Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair.
Life
Gordon was educated at
Cothill House
Cothill House is a day and boarding boys' independent school for preparatory pupils in Cothill, Oxfordshire, which houses around 220 boys from the ages 8–13.
General information
The school offers day places, junior and full boarding, with aro ...
, Abingdon, and
Harrow School.
He was appointed a
Deputy Lieutenant of
Aberdeenshire in 1998.
The Dowager Marchioness is a patron of
Haddo House
Haddo House is a Scottish stately home located near Tarves in Aberdeenshire, approximately north of Aberdeen (). It has been owned by the National Trust for Scotland since 1979.
The Gordons, who later became the Earls of Aberdeen and Marques ...
Choral and Operatic Society.
Marriage and issue
He married Joanna Clodagh Houldsworth in 1981. They had four children:
*
George Ian Alastair Gordon, 8th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (b. 4 May 1983). He married Isabelle Coaten. They have two sons and one daughter:
** Ivo Alexander Ninian Gordon, Earl of Haddo (b. 18 July 2012)
** Lord Johnny David Nehemiah Gordon (b. 23 June 2014)
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** Lady Christabel Alexandra Lully Gordon (b. 1 March 2016)
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** Lara Sophie Bebe Gordon (b. 21 September 2018)
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* Lord Charles David Gordon (b. 8 June 1996)
References
* Burke's Peerage
Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher founded in 1826, when the Irish genealogist John Burke began releasing books devoted to the ancestry and heraldry of the peerage, baronetage, knightage and landed gentry of Great ...
* Who's Who 2009
''Who's Who'' (or ''Who is Who'') is the title of a number of reference publications, generally containing concise biographical information on the prominent people of a country. The title has been adopted as an expression meaning a group of nota ...
External links
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1955 births
2020 deaths
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People educated at Cothill House
People educated at Harrow School
Deputy Lieutenants of Aberdeenshire