Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon
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Portrait, oil on canvas of Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon (1720–1757) by Philippe Mercier (1689–1760)
Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon KT (April 27 1720 – 5 August 1752), styled Marquess of Huntly until 1728, was a Scottish peer.[1]
Gordon was the son of the 2nd Duke of Gordon and was named after his father's close, Jacobite friend, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1752. In 1748, he was made a Knight of the Thistle.
Family
Gordon married Lady Catherine Gordon (c. 1725 – 10 December 1779), daughter of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, on 3 September 1741; they had children:
- Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743–1827),
- Lord William Gordon (1744–1823), married Hon. Frances Ingram-Shepheard (daughter of Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine),
- Lord George Gordon (1751–1793),
- Lady Susan Gordon (c. 1752–1814), married first John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland, and second, Colonel John Woodford, having issue from both marriages.[2]
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