George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen

George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen

George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen (19 June 1722–13 August 1801), styled Lord Haddo until 1745, was a Scottish peer.

Aberdeen was the son of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, by his second wife Lady Susan, daughter of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1761 and from 1774 to 1790.

Lord Aberdeen married Catherine Elizabeth Hanson, daughter of Oswald Hanson, in 1759. Their son George Gordon, Lord Haddo, was the father of Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. Lord Aberdeen died in August 1801, aged 79. The Countess of Aberdeen died in March 1817.

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