2-981-844 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Earl of Aberdeen, 1876. 'The Right Honourable John Campbell Hamilton, seventh Earl of Aberdeen, who moved the Address in the Lords to the Speech of her Majesty from the Throne...In consequence of remarkable circumstances, the title has passed rather rapidly from the fourth to the present Earl. The Scotch earldom is of the creation of 1682; and his Lordship is Viscount Formartine, Baron Haddo, Methlic, Tarvis, and Kellie, in Scotland, while he possesses the viscounty of Gordon in the United Kingdom, by which dignity he sits as a peer of Parliament. His Lordship is understood to be a student of socio-political economy; at present he is unmarried, and his heir presumptive is his uncle, the Hon. Sir Alexander Gordon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.