GORDON, William 1st of Fyvie, Colonel 1 2 3 4 5
- Baptised: 4 May 1736, Methlick parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 3 5
- Marriage (1): BLACK, Isobel 1
- Died: 25 May 1816 2 4
- Buried: 1816, Fyvie Cemetery, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 4
User ID: P472.
General Notes:
"GORDON
WILLIAM
WILLIAM EARL OF ABERDEEN GORDON ANNE GORDON FR334 (FR334)
M
04/05/1736
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10 / 411
Methlick"
from Births and Baptisms
William (Gordon) became a General in 1798, MP for Woodstock, and Groom of the Bedchamber to King George III. He improved the castle of Fyvie from 1777 onwards, adding the Gordon Tower in the 1790s, creating the lake and laying out the parklands in the 18th century style.
from Fyvie Castle, Garden and Estate
"William (Gordon) of Fyvie Castle, an estate which the Earl of Aberdeen purchased in 1734 and settled upon the issue of his third marriage. A further conveyance of 'The Tower,Fortalice, Lands, Lordship, and Barony of Fyvie, the Earl of Dumfermlings Lodging in Aberdeen and some Temple lands proceeds from Colonel James Seton of Barns, son of George, as grantor, who acquired right by decreet of adjudication in 1767 from Sarah Lydia Diodati, spouse of Dirk Hubert Verelst, Dutch ambassador to Berlin, grand-niece of George Seton of Barnes, who bought the estate in 1705 from Thomas Vicomte of Teviot, who had gift from King William 1695 on forfeiture of James, Earl of Dumfermling.' Mr. Gordon had a commission as colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of Dragoons 26 July 1756, and became general in the army 1 January 1798. He was M.P. for Woodstock 1767, and for Heytesbury 1774. He was appointed one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to King George III. 7 April 1775. He died 25 May 1816, and was succeeded by his son William Gordon ; served heir 25 Nov. 1839 ; died s. p. 9 Jan. 1847."
from Scots Peerage (vol 1) 1 2 5
William married Isobel BLACK.1 (Isobel BLACK was baptised on 10 April 1744 in Methlick parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland,5 died on 3 June 1824 4 and was buried in 1824 in Fyvie Cemetery, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 4.)
Marriage Notes:
"Fyvie was purchased in 1726 by William Gordon, second Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., who married as his third wife Lady Anne Gordon, daughter of Alexander, second Duke of Gordon. By his marriage contract with this lady, he became bound to settle an estate of a certain value upon her eldest son. In implement of this condition, he bequeathed Fyvie to the eldest son of the marriage - General the Honourable William Gordon. He was for many years a Member of Parliament and Groom of the Bed Chamber to George III. A tablestone within a railed enclosure on the south side of Fyvie Church commemorates him and his lady and their only son, the inscription being -
'General the Honourable William Gordon of Fyvie, died 25th May, 1816, aged 80. And the Honble. Mrs Gordon of Fyvie, died 3rd June, 1824, aged 80. Also William Gordon of Fyvie, their only son, who died 9th January, 1847, aged 71'."
from Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions 4
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