Genealogical memoir of the most noble and ancient house of Drummond

sect. vi. Of James Drummond, 2* Duke of Perth.' l65
taken in the plans he took for advancing its best inter-
ests.
He married Lady Jean Gordon, daughter of George,
the first duke of Gordon, and Lady Elizabeth Howard,
daughter of Henry, duke of Norfolk, by whom he had
two sens and two daughters.
1 . James, his heir.
2. John, commonly called Lord John Drummond,
who succeeded on his brother's death to the family
representation, and in whom the Perth estate was
forfeited.
3. Lady Mary Drummond. 4. Lndy Henriet Drum-
mond, who died both unmarried.
He died in 1717, and was succeeded by his eldest son
James.
Family of Gordon, Duke of Gordon.
The ancestors of the_ family of Gordon, so often allied
by marriage with the house of Drummond, existed in
France long before the Norman conquest. They came
to England with William the Conqueror, and to Scotland
with King Malcolm Canmore, in whose reign the an-
cestor of this family distinguished himself by killing a
wild boar, which greatly infested the Scottish borders ;
and thereupon he took the boar's head for his armorial
bearing. Sir Adam de Gordon, the sixth in descent from
the founder, got a grant from King ! Robert, in 1321, of
the lordship of Strathbogie, at which he fixed his resi-
dence, and gave the lands the name of Huntly. In 1376,
his great-grandson, Sir John Gordon, got from Robert II
a patent, in which he is styled Lord Gordon of Strath-
bogie or Huntly. Alexander, son of his grand-daughtev