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TitleTHE DUKEDOM OF GORDON
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Some records of the Gordon family have been noticed earlier in this Catalogue (especially in the section relating to Charlotte, Duchess of Richmond) and there will be further references later on. But as it was the 5th Duke of Richmond who inherited the Gordon estates, it is perhaps appropriate to bring in at this point the more miscellaneous Gordon records up to his accession, before dealing with the principal archives which stem from his and his family's personal activities and from their Sussex estates. Also included here are a few later documents relating to the Scottish estates.
Related MaterialFor details of the somewhat complicated descents of the Dukedoms of Gordon and the Marquessate of Huntly, the reader is referred to G. E. C[okayne], The Complete Peerage, under the titles of Gordon, Richmond, Huntly and Aboyne, and to Burke's Peerage, especially under Huntly. For a short guide to, and history of, Huntly Castle, see W. Douglas Simpson, Huntly Castle, Aberdeenshire (HMSO, Edinburgh, 1960)
AdminHistoryOn 1 November 1684, King Charles II elevated George Gordon, then 4th Marquess of Huntly, to the Dukedom of Gordon, a dignity which became extinct on the death of George, 5th Duke and 8th Marquess, without issue, on 28 May 1836. The Marquessate of Huntly devolved on his cousin and heir male, George, 5th Earl of Aboyne, who was descended from a younger son of George, 2nd Marquess of Huntly. The eldest sister of George, 5th Duke of Gordon, was Charlotte, Duchess of Richmond, who was heir of line to any of his Scottish titles so descendible; thus the Gordon estates came to her son Charles, 5th Duke of Richmond who assumed the additional surname of Gordon. Charles Henry, 6th Duke of Richmond was created Earl of Kinrara and Duke of Gordon on 13 January 1876
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