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It was constructed in 1861 as a memorial to George Hamilton Gordon, the 4th Earl of Aberdeen. The square tower is reminiscent of a rook in chess. The tower is 25 metres tall and built primarily from granite. It is a category C building restored by Gordon District Council in 1992. There are 91 steps to the top! Haddo Estate owns the tower.
George Hamilton Gordon, fourth Earl of Aberdeen, who served as Prime Minister from 19 December 1852 to 30 January 1855. was born on 28 January 1784 in Edinburgh. He was the eldest son and first of seven children born to George Gordon, Lord Haddo and his wife Charlotte Baird. Aberdeen was educated at preparatory schools in Barnet and Parsons ...
Life. He was the son of John Gordon, Lord Gordon, and Margaret Stewart, daughter of James IV and Margaret Drummond. George Gordon inherited his earldom and estates in 1524 at age 10. As commander of the King's Army he defeated the English at the Battle of Haddon Rig in 1542, was a member of the council of Regency under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran and Cardinal Beaton and succeeded as ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of. Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of (1784–1860) British statesman, prime minister (1852–55). As foreign secretary (1841–46) to Sir Robert Peel, he negotiated the Webster-Ashburton and the Oregon Boundary treaties with the United States. He and Peel resigned over the issue of the ...
ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4th Earl of (1784–1860), English statesman, was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of William Baird of Newbyth, Haddingtonshire, and grandson of George, 3rd earl of Aberdeen. Born in Edinburgh on the 28th of January 1784, he lost his father in 1791 and his mother in 1795; and as his grandfather regarded him wit
Gordon was six when his father, Lord Haddo, heir of the lascivious 3rd earl of Aberdeen, whose determination to provide for his several bastards created considerable problems for his legitimate successors, died suddenly in October 1791.1 Lady Haddo quarrelled with Aberdeen and removed herself and her seven children, who included Gordon’s elder brother George, now Lord Haddo and heir to his ...
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