George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen

George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen (10 December 1841 – 27 January 1870), styled Lord Haddo from 1860 to 1864, was a Scottish peer and sailor.

Hamilton-Gordon settled for a time in Richmond, Maine, where he took jobs cutting ice and clerking at a store (where it is reported he lost his temper at being fired and told his employer that he "could buy and sell him many times over" before storming out).[1] As a sailor, he often shipped out of Richmond, and at one time captained a small ship called the Walton (or Waltham). His profession was not entirely a mystery to his family at home, as he wrote letters to his mother and brother on occasion.[2]

Travelling from Boston to Melbourne on the Hera in 1870, Lord Aberdeen was washed overboard during a violent storm and drowned. It was reported he was swept away when attempting to take down the boom sail, which he could have ordered another man to do.[3] His younger brother had been killed in a rifle accident two years earlier, so Aberdeen was succeeded by his next younger brother, John, who went on to become Governor-General of Canada from 1893 to 1898 and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1896 and again from 1905 to 1915.[4]

Arms

Coat of arms of George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen
Notes
These supporters were granted to the 4th earl (as Viscount Gordon) and his successors in 1818 in place of the ancient supporters Dexter: A senator of the College of Justice and Sinister: A minister of state, each in his robes of office.[5]
Crest
Dexter, Two arms, from the shoulder, naked, holding a bow proper, to let an arrow fly (Gordon); Sinister, Out of a ducal coronet or, an oak tree, the stem cut transversely by a frame saw, the blade inscribed with the word "through", all proper (Hamilton).
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Azure, three boars' heads couped within a double tressure flowered and counter-flowered with roses, thistles and fleurs-de-lys or (Gordon); 2nd & 3rd, Quarterly, first and fourth, gules, three cinquefoils pierced ermine, second and third, Argent, an ancient ship with sails furled sable the whole within a bordure of the last (Hamilton).
Supporters
Two antelopes argent, armed and unguled or, each gorged with a collar flory counterflory azure, charged with three roses or, and line reflexed over the back azure.
Motto
Fortuna sequatur (Let fortune follow). Alternatively: Ne Ninium (Not too much)[6][5]

References

  1. ^ "Nobleman in Disguise, or 'When the Earl of Aberdeen made Richmond his home'", Richmond Bee.
  2. ^ "The Gordons of Methlic & Haddo", electricscotland.com. Accessed 6 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Nobleman in Disguise, or 'When the Earl of Aberdeen made Richmond his home'", Richmond Bee.
  4. ^ Hamilton-Gordon, John Campbell; Hamilton-Gordon, Ishbel (1925). "We twa" : reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.
  5. ^ a b Debrett's Illustrated Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1865. p. 26.
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. 1846. pp. 4–5.


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