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The Gordons of Haddo and Methlick. 1 3
daughter of John James, First Marquis of Abercorn. By her, who died February 29, 18 12,
he had a son who died in infancy, and three daughters who died unmarried. The Earl
married secondly, July 8, 1815, Harriet, daughter of Hon. John Douglas, relict of James
Viscount Hamilton, and mother of the first Duke of Abercorn. By her, who died
August 26, 1833, he had issue : —
I. George John James, Lord Haddo, his successor,
n. Alexander, born 11 December, 1817 (died 1890), General in the army, K.C.B.,
married December 9, 1852, Caroline, eldest daughter of Sir John Hcrschel,
Bart., and has issue.
HI. Douglas, Chaplain to the Queen, Canon of Sarum, and Rector of Great
Stanhope, born 13 March, 1824, married 15 July, 1851, Ellen, daughter of the
Earl of Morton, and has issue.
IV. Arthur, born 1829, C.M.G., 1859 ; K.C.M.G., 1871 ; G.C.M.G., 1S78. In
1 86 1, he was appointed Lieut. -Governor of New Brunswick ; 1866, Governor of
Trinidad; 1870, Governor of the Mauritius : 1874-80, Governor of Fiji ; 1S77,
Consul-General for the Western Pacific Islands; 1880-82, Governor of New
Zealand; 1883-89, Governor of Ceylon. He married 1865, Rachel Emily (died
1889), eldest daughter of the late Sir John Shaw Lefevre, K.C.B., and has
issue.
I. Frances, died, unmarried, 1834.
His Lordship died December 14, 1S60, and was succeeded by his son —
XII. George John James, 5th Earl of Aberdeen, better known
as Lord Haddo.
He was born 28 September, 1816, at the Priory, near Stanmore, Middlesex. He
studied at Cambridge, and in 1827 took his degree of M.A. He was elected in 1S54
M.P. for Aberdeenshire, and in the general election of 1857 was again returned. He
was long in very delicate health. Symptoms of illness began to appear in 1853, from
which he never wholly recovered. This illness proved to be a wasting atrophy, and he
was told by the best medical advice that a fatal issue could not be averted, yet nothing
could exceed the calm composure with which he was led to contemplate an early death
as all but certain ; and he set his house in order. He devoted himself to the good of
those around him, watching over his children's education, and attending to religious,
philanthropic, and various other objects up to the very week of his death. He was
easily accessible to the humblest and poorest of the tenants, and took the liveliest
interest in all their wants and difficulties. This good Earl continued in the good works
which he had set himself to do, in the great work of preparation to meet his God, until
the last day of his life. His spirit gently and quietly passed away a few minutes after
midnight on the morning of the 23rd March, 1S64.