Sutherland, John (London)

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Dates 1707-33
Location London
Vocation Army officer and politician
Place of Birth Scotland
Marriage Helen Cochrane (d.c.1690); Katherine Tollemache (d.c.1705); Frances Travell
Issue 4 children
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; J.B. Paul, The Scots Peerage: A History of the Noble Families of Scotland, 9 vols (Edinburgh, 1904-1914), viii, 353-5

Surname formerly Gordon. Sixteenth Earl of Sutherland. Supported union between England and Scotland. Was representative peer in Parliament 1707-8 and again fro 1715 until death in 1733. Was in Scotland for Jacobite rising of 1715. Created a Knight of the Order of the Thistle (1716). Died in Chelsea, 1733 and buried at Dornoch in Sutherland.