GORDON-CUMMING-SKENE, John of Pitlurg and Birness, Lieutenant General ¹

  General Notes:

"James Gordon of Hilton, M.D., who married, in 1731, Barbara, daughter of Robert Cuming of Birness, parish of Logie Buchan, and his son, John Gordon of Pitlurg, on succeeding in right of his mother to the entailed estates of Birness and Leask, assumed the additional name of Cuming. His eldest son, John Gordon Cuming of Pitlurg and Birness, inheriting in 1815 the estates of his relative Skene, of Dyce, the eldest collateral branch of Skene of Skene, assumed, in accordance with a deed of entail, the additional name of Skene, He had entered the army in 1779, and eventually attained the rank of lieutenant-general. His eldest son, William Gordon-Cuming-Skene of Pitlurg and Dyce, was also an officer in the army, and served several years with the 92d regiment, or Gordon Highlanders, and afterwards with the 6th foot, in France and the Peninsula, and on the staff in the West Indies. He was also lieutenant-colonel of the Aberdeenshire militia. He died 14th January 1847, and was succeeded by his son, John Gordon-Cuming-Skene of Pitlurg and Dyce, born 9th February 1837."

from Electric Scotland website

John married.