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Lord Douglas Gordon-Hallyburton (10 October 1777 – 25 December 1841) was a Scottish soldier and Member of Parliament.

Biography

He was born as

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Douglas Gordon, only child of

Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne (c. 1726 – 28 December 1794). The eldest son of John Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aboyne and Grace Lockhart, he succeeded his father as 4th Earl of Aboyne on 7 April 1732. On his death in 1794 he was succeeded in his t ...

by his second wife Mary, daughter of

James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, KT, PRS (1702 – 12 October 1768) was a Scottish astronomer and representative peer who was president of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1737 until his death. He also became ...

and Agatha, heiress of James Halyburton of Pitcur.Sir

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, ''The Scots Peerage''
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p. 105 In 1784, following the death of his first cousin

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, he succeeded to the estate of Pitcur, near

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in Forfarshire, and adopted the name and arms of Hallyburton of Pitcur. On 28 March 1795 he joined the Army as an Ensign in the 2nd Battalion

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, quickly rising to become a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion

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on 25 August and a captain in the 113th Foot on 31 August the same year. He served in the

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with

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and carried home despatches from

Charles Craufurd Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Gregan Craufurd GCB (12 February 1763 – 26 March 1821) was a British soldier. He was born in Golden Square, London, the second son of Sir Alexander Crauford of Kilbirnie, 1st Baronet and his wife, Jane Crokatt. ...

on 4 July 1796. After a period on

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he joined the 22nd Regiment of Foot on 14 August 1798 before exchanging into the

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as a Lieutenant on 25 December. He retained the Army rank of Captain until appointed

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with the rank of Major on 11 June 1803. On 16 July 1807, at Dublin, he married Louisa, daughter of

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; they had no children. On 21 March 1828, Douglas Gordon-Hallyburton was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Forfarshire by the

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, Lord Airlie. In 1831, the Member of Parliament for

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William Ramsay Maule was raised to the peerage, and in the ensuing by-election Lord Airlie's brother Donald Ogilvy was returned. However this was overturned on petitionJohn Foster,
Members of Parliament, Scotland
', 1882, p. 168 and Hallyburton's name substituted on 31 January 1832. He was re-elected at the general election of that year and again in 1835. In 1836 his half-brother George succeeded the last Duke of Gordon as

Marquess of Huntly Marquess of Huntly (traditionally spelled Marquis in Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: ''Coileach Strath Bhalgaidh'') is a title in the Peerage of Scotland that was created on 17 April 1599 for George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly. It is the oldest existin ...

, and on 29 June that year Douglas was granted the rank and title of the younger son of a Marquess, becoming Lord Douglas Gordon-Hallyburton. He was elected again for Forfarshire in 1837 and sat until the general election of 1841. He died later that year, and his estates were inherited by his nephew Lord Frederick Gordon, who had also succeeded to the seat in Parliament. He was survived by his wife, who died on 2 October 1851.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon-Hallyburton, Douglas 1777 births British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 1841 deaths Younger sons of earls Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Deputy Lieutenants of Forfarshire

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