Family of Gordon in Griamachary, in the parish of Kildonan

The Griamachary Gordons. 19
1876), being granted the dignity of a
peer for life, by the style of Baron Gor-
don of Drumearn, Co., Stirling, with a
salary of £6,000 a year, being thus one of our
earliest life peers. Drumearn was the name of a
farm on his wife's estate.
He was one of the junior counsel for Major
Yelverton in the famous Yelverton marriage case
in 1862 His act of 1 87-t '" made sweeping charges
in the direction of supplying and cheapening the
transference of land." (Crabb Watt's 'John Inglis '
p. 224). The Dictionary of National Biography
describes him as " a careful and accurate if not
brilliant lawyer. His health did not permit him
to give full scope to his power in the House of
Lords, but the judgments which he did give there
were invariably sound and carefully considered."
Almost his only appearances in the layman press
was a letter he wrote to the " Times " on October
21, 1868 on the Scotch Law Commission.
He sat in his place in the House of Lords until
the end of July 1879, when he went to Homburg in
search of health. He never got further, however,
than Brussels, where he died, August 21, 1879.
He left personal estate amounting to up-
wards of £11,000. His executors were his
widow, Alexander Drvsdale, James Badenoch
Nicolson, Edmund Baxter, and his two sons John
Edward Gordon, and Rev. Arthur Gordon. The
will was confirmed under the seal of the Edin-
burgh Commissariot October 14, 1879.
His armorial bearings were — Azure, an eagle's
head erased between three boars' heads erased or ;
mantling gules, doubled argent Crest — Upon a
wreath of his liveries, a boar's head
He married in 1845, Agnes Joanna, only child
of John Maclnnes of Auchinreoch Stirlingshire
(who died September 4, 1804) She was served her
father's heir special in the lands of Auchinfroe.
Her sons, Frederic and Huntly, now own her
estate. She died October 11, 1895, having had : —
1 Hon John Edward Gordon.
2 Edward Strathearn Gordon (1853-61).
3 Rev. the Hon Arthur Gordon ; born Decem-
ber 20, 1854. He was ordained minister
of St Andrews Parish, Edinburgh in 1882
remaining till May 1895, when he became
minister of Monzievaird and gtrowan,