GORDON, Alexander 10th Earl, 5th Marquis and 2nd Duke of Gordon, Jacobite 1715 1
- Born: About 1678
- Marriage (1): MORDAUNT, Henrietta 7 October 1706, and 5 February 1707 (contract) 1
- Died: 28 November 1728, Gordon Castle, near Fochabers, Moray, Scotland 1
- Buried: 1728, Elgin Cathedral, Moray Scotland 1
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Alexander married Henrietta MORDAUNT 7 October 1706, and 5 February 1707 (contract).1 (Henrietta MORDAUNT was born about 1688 and died on 11 October 1760 in Prestonhall, near Edinburgh, Scotland 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (Alexander Gordon) married (contract 7 October 1706, and 5 February 1707 ) Henrietta Mordaunt, daughter of Charles, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth. She was a woman of much energy and ability. She introduced many agricultural improvements in the north, even bringing down from England English ploughs, with men to work them. At her husband's death she found herself in charge of a large and young family ; she determined to bring them up in the Protestant faith. For this the General Assembly in 1730 sent her a cordial letter of thanks, and the Government in 1735 settled upon her a pension of £1000 a year. This, it is said, was withdrawn in 1745, because she set out a breakfast on the roadside for Prince Charles Edward when he passed her park gates on his way to England. She survived her husband for many years, dying 11 October 1760 at Prestonhall, near Edinburgh, which she had purchased in 1738, and which she left to her son Adam. By her the Duke had issue"
from Scots Peerage (vol 4) 1
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