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Lord John Frederick Gordon Hallyburton, GCH (15 August 1799 – 29 September 1878) was a Scottish naval officer and Member of Parliament.

Life and career

He was born

the Honourable ''The Honourable'' (Commonwealth English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific Style ...

John Frederick Gordon, third son of George Gordon, 5th Earl of Aboyne by his wife Catherine Anne, daughter of

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. On 28 May 1836 his father succeeded as 9th

Marquess of Huntly Marquess of Huntly is a title in the Peerage of Scotland that was created on 17 April 1599 for George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly. It is the oldest existing marquessate in Scotland, and the second-oldest in the British Isles; only the English ma ...

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, ''The Scots Peerage'', 1907
vol. 4
p 559Patrick Cracroft-Brennan

, Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 23 October 2011 He reached the rank of

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in the

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on 4 August 1836. On 24 August 1836 Gordon was married to Lady Augusta Kennedy-Erskine (17 June 1803 – 8 December 1865), widow since 6 April 1831 of the Hon. John Kennedy Erskine of Dun, second son of

Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa, Order of the Thistle, KT, Royal Society, FRS (February 1770 – 8 September 1846), styled Lord Kennedy between 1792–4 and known as the Earl of Cassillis between 1794 and 1831, was a British peerage, Sco ...

. She was born Augusta

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, the fourth daughter of

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by the actress

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,Patrick Cracroft-Brennan
Munster, Earl of (UK, 1831 - 2000)
, Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 23 October 2011 and had been raised to the rank of a Marquess's daughter on 24 May 1831. By this marriage he gained three step-children: * William Henry Kennedy Erskine (1 July 1828 – 5 September 1870), who inherited the

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and served as a captain in the

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. He married Catherine Jones on 18 November 1862 and had issue, including the writer

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.James Balfour Paul, ''The Scots Peerage'', 1904
vol. 2
p. 499-500 * Wilhelmina Kennedy Erskine (26 June 1830 – 9 October 1906), who married William George FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster on 17 April 1855 and had issue. * Augusta Millicent Anne Mary Kennedy Erskine (11 May 1831 – 11 February 1895), who married James Hay Wemyss on 17 April 1855 and had issue. They had no children of their own. Gordon was made a Knight Grand Cross in the civil division of the

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on 22 August 1836 and a

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to the King on 26 October that year. In the general election of 1841 Gordon was elected to Parliament for

, succeeding his uncle Lord Douglas Gordon-Hallyburton.Leigh Rayment, . Retrieved 23 October 2011 He also inherited his uncle's estates, and assumed the additional surname of Hallyburton in 1843. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant for Forfarshire on 5 June 1847 and re-elected for the county in the general election of that year. He remained in Parliament until the 1852 election,Joseph Foster,
Members of Parliament, Scotland
', 1882, p. 152 when he was replaced by

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. Gordon-Hallyburton was promoted to

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on the Reserve Half Pay List on 12 May 1857, and promoted in the same list to

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on 4 November 1863 and full

on 8 April 1868. He lived at Hallyburton House near

Coupar Angus Coupar Angus (; Gaelic: ''Cupar Aonghais'') is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies on the River Isla in the broad and fertile Valley of Strathmore, south of Blairgowrie. The A94 road from Perth to Forfar runs through the town, a ...

.Perth Post Office Directory 1865: List of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Country Seats

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