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Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon

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A portrait of Alexander Gordon (standing, with Jean Gordon, later Jean Drummond, Duchess of Perth), and (seated), George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon
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Gordon married Lady Henrietta Mordaunt (ca. 1688–1760), daughter of
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and Lady Elizabeth Howard, the daughter of the Roman Catholic
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Jacobite
George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
Jacobites
battle of Sheriffmuir
Gordon Castle
John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland
Edinburgh
Cam Ye o'er frae France
Gordon clan
Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough
7th Earl of Wemyss
2nd Earl of Aberdeen
Cosmo George, 3rd Duke of Gordon
Lewis Gordon
millinery business
Lord Adam Gordon
"Learmonth, Christian (bap. 1718, d. 1762), milliner and shopkeeper"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/69627
UK public library membership
"Lord Charles Gordon, 1721 - 1780"
"Gordon, Alexander (1678?-1728)" 

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