GORDON, John 4th of Cluny (of the 3rd House), MP for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

"He had embarked on a brief military career in 1800, travelled in Europe and the Levant, 1802-4, apparently in the company of the 4th earl of Aberdeen, and returned to England with Nelson's remains in 1805. He largely occupied himself with the management of his estates and, displaying a strongly litigious streak, was involved in three cases over them between 1815 and 1818."

"In the House, where he was usually distinguished from other Gordons by the title 'Colonel', he appears to have been an almost silent supporter of the Liverpool, Canning and Wellington administrations."

"An action for debt having been brought against him in late 1830 by his former agent James John Fraser, the summons to the court of session stated that Gordon
has, for many years, been much concerned in political adventures, the main object of which was to raise him to the peerage; for which distinction he has constantly, but unsuccessfully, struggled, in a great variety of ways, and more particularly by attempting to get himself returned as a Member of Parliament to represent a Scotch county, he having become exceedingly unpopular in the borough of Weymouth.
He held property in several counties and was said to have been especially hopeful of succeeding his friend Lord Fife to the representation of Banffshire in 1827."

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