George Hamilton Gordon fourth Earl of Aberdeen

Standard Name: Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon,,, fourth Earl of

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Rigby
ER 's husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , accepted the post of Director of the National Gallery, at the urging of the Prime Minister and Prince Albert .
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
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Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
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Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Hamilton King
The fourth Earl of Aberdeen was her uncle by marriage and the first Duke of Abercorn her uncle by blood.
Burke, John, editor. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s Peerage.
Textual Production Lucille Iremonger
LI published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia , daughter of George III (who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria 's daughters in 1982. In 1981...

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19 December 1852: George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen,...

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19 December 1852

George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen , a Peelite, became Prime Minister of a Liberal-Peelite coalition government .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

30 January 1855: Public outrage against Lord Raglan, who commanded...

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30 January 1855

Public outrage against Lord Raglan , who commanded Britain's forces in the Crimean War, culminated in a Parliament ary inquiry that brought down Lord Aberdeen 's government and enabled various reforms.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Somerset, FitzRoy James Henry

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