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Victoria, April 10, 1844. He became ensign
and lieutenant in the Scots Fusilier Guards,
February 13, 1852: adjutant 1858-61. Ho
served throughout the eastern campaign of
1854-5, including the battles of Alma, Bala-
clava, and Inkerman, the siege and fall of
Sevastopol, and the sortie of October 26:
and holds the medal and clasp, 5th class
of the Medjidie and the Turkish medal.
He became lieut. -colonel, February 13, 1863 :
major of the 3rd Battalion Lothian Regi-
ment, Edinburgh Militia, May 10, 1881. He
retired by the sale of his commission Jany.
7, 1882, and 'became honorary colonel of the
3rd Royal Scots, March 7, 1900. He be-
came comptroller to the household of Prince
and Princess Christian, July 6, 1866. He
was made C B. July 14, 1891, and C.V.O.
Mav 5, 1899. He married, August 8, 1863,
at St Paul's, Knilgihtshridge, Constance Aug-
usta Lennox, daughter of Laurence Peel
and Lady Jane Peel, which Lady Jane was
the daughter of the 4th Duke of Richmond
by Lady Charlotte Gordon, daughter of the
4th Duke of Gordon and the famous Jane
Maxwell. Mrs Gordon was appointed Hon.
Bedchamber Woman to Princess Christian,
January 18, 1867. They have—
i. Laurence George Frank Gordon, born at
Charles Street, Berkeley Square, Lon-
don, May 21, 1864. He entered the Royal
Artillery in 1883, and became captain in
1893 and major in 1900. He went
through the Sonth African war, when
he got his D.'S.O. He married in 1895
Florence Juliette, daughter of C. A.
Walters, and widow of Alexander
McHinch, CLE., and has a daughter —
Thelma Eisme Florence Gordon, born
1900.
ii. Christian Frederic Gordon, born
October 30, 1866, at 13 Cromwell Place,
South Kensington. He is a stockbroker,
and is sometimes Iknown as "Eric" Gor-
don. He married August 27, 1894, Mar-
garet, daughter of W. v *. Humble, whom
Lodge's "'Peerage" calls "of Chester";
she was first married to J. B. Close, an
Ensrlishman who was killed in Minesota
while nolo plaving. She married, thirdlv,
in 1902, Lord Granville Gordon,
iii. Helena Jane Gordon, born April
21, 1870. She was married at
the Royal Chapel, Windsor, on
April 17, 1894. to the Rev. William
Henry Stone, M.A., vicar of St James's,
Hatcham, Kent, and since 1896. of St
Mary, Kilburn. Prince and Princess
Christian, the late Prince Christian
Victor, Princess Victoria of Schleswig-