George Gordon, Lord Haddo

Lord Haddo (right) with George Hay, 16th Earl of Erroll

George Gordon, Lord Haddo (28 January 1764 – 2 October 1791) was a Scottish Freemason and the eldest son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.

On 18 June 1782, Haddo married Charlotte Baird (d. 8 October 1795) a sister of Sir David Baird, Bt. and they had seven children:

• Hon. George Hamilton-Gordon (1784–1860), later 4th Earl of Aberdeen and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1852–1855)
• Hon. William Gordon (1784–1858), politician and vice-admiral
• The Hon. Sir Alexander Gordon (1786–1815), lieutenant-colonel, killed at Waterloo
• Lady Alice Gordon (1787–1847), granted the rank of an earl's daughter in 1813, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Sophia of Gloucester, died unmarried.
• Hon. Charles Gordon (1790–1835), soldier
• Hon. Sir Robert Gordon (1791–1847), diplomat
• Hon. Sir John Gordon (1792–1869), naval officer

Haddo was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1784 to 1786. In this capacity he laid the foundation stone of South Bridge, Edinburgh on 1 August 1785.

He predeceased his father in 1791 and on the latter's death in 1801, the earldom passed to Haddo's eldest son, George.

Legacy

Haddo Peak in the Canadian Rocky Mountains was named in his honour.

References

• Lundy, Darryl (24 January 2011). "i24705: George Gordon, Lord Haddo". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 6 September 2011. This source cites:
  • Cokayne, G.E.; et al. (2000). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959). Vol. 1 (reprint in 6 volumes ed.). Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing. pp. 15, 16.
  • Paul, Sir James Balfour (1904). The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland. Vol. 1. Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas. p. 93.