Lord Adam Gordon (British Army officer)
Lord Adam Gordon | |
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Commander-in-Chief, Scotland | |
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Lord Adam Gordon (c. 1726 – 13 August 1801) was a Scottish career army officer, achieving the rank of general, and a younger son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon, and Lady Henrietta Mordaunt.
Early life and education
He entered the army as an
18th Regiment of Foot.[1]
Seven Years' War
Gordon was returned for
Duke of Newcastle during the parliamentary inquiry into his ministry's role in the loss of Menorca.[1]
In 1758, he took part in the
Battle of St. Cast,[1] leading the grenadier company of the Guards as part of the rearguard there.[2]
Gordon continued in Parliament after the
66th Regiment of Foot, and the next year, toured the West Indies, the American colonies, and Canada, looking to invest in land. He returned to England in 1765.[1]
On 2 September 1767, he married Jean, Dowager Duchess of Atholl (daughter of
major-general.[1]
On 27 December 1775, Gordon was appointed colonel of the
The Royal Scots on 9 May 1782. Unhappy with the terms of the Treaty of Paris and the fate of the loyalists, he supported the new ministry of Pitt
in 1783.
He left Parliament in 1788. Gordon was appointed
governorship of Edinburgh Castle in 1796. He was replaced as Commander-in-Chief in 1798 and retired to his seat in Kincardineshire, where he died in 1801.[1]
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11013. Retrieved 21 September 2006. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Galt, John (1813). "Letters From the Levant". Retrieved 21 September 2006. [dead link]
- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1853). Index to Burke's Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Colburn and Company. p. 109. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
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