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Dates 1708
Location London
Vocation Aristocrat; politician
Place of Birth Scotland
Marriage Mary Leslie; Susan Murray (d.1725); Anne Gordon
Issue 4 sons, 1 daughter
Place of birth Source History of Parliament Online

Styled Lord Haddo. Second Earl of Aberdeen. Gordon clan were staunch Catholics and Stuart supporters, Gordon was a moderate episcopalian and Jacobite. Returned for Aberdeenshire in general election of 1708. Petition again his election as the son of a Scottish Peer and forced to step down.