Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet of Altyre and Gordonstoun
FRSE
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(20 July 1787 – 25 November 1854),
was a Scottish
Member of Parliament
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Gordon-Cumming was
member of parliament
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(MP) for
Elgin Burghs from 1831 to 1832.
Life
He was born on 20 July 1787, the son of
Alexander Penrose Cumming, 1st baronet of Altyre, and his wife, Helen Grant.
In 1828 Gordon-Cumming was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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, his proposer being Sir John Hay. Gordon-Cumming resigned in 1832.
"Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002"
Biographical Index, Part One. The Royal Society of Edinburgh, July 2006.
Family
He married twice, first in 1815 to Eliza Maria Campbell (died 1842), the oldest daughter of Colonel John Campbell of Shawfield and Islay, with whom he had seven sons and six daughters.
He remarried in 1846 to Jane Eliza Mackintosh (died 1897), daughter of William Mackintosh of Geddes, Nairn, with whom he had one son and two daughters.
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1787 births
1854 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
UK MPs 1831–1832
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