Background
Gordon was the youngest of five children and the fourth son of Lord Dudley Gordon.
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Alastair Gordon
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He was raised at the family home of Haddo House and attended Harrow before entering Gray"s School of Artist
Career
Commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1939, he served in the Middle East and North Africa before being invalided to Syria after an Irish Guardsman accidentally shot him in the shoulder. Returning to active service, he fought in Italy and North-West Europe before being demobilized as a staff captain in 1946. After leaving the services, he and fellow veteran and nobleman Earl Haig enrolled at the Camberwell School of Artist
lieutenant was at Camberwell that Gordon began to specialize in botanical paintings.
Several exhibitions of his art would be held in London, New York, Chicago, and Sydney. lieutenant was at this time (1965) that his father inherited the Marquessate and Alastair became Lord Alastair Gordon.
Gordon settled at Ashampstead, Berkshire, far from his ancestral home at Haddo, allowing him to enjoy the company of artistic, rather than country, society. Aside from his art, he also enjoyed a longtime role as an amateur singer in the Bach Choir.
He attended the Lords only sparingly to speak on topics of interest to him.
In his last year of life, he frequently wrote letters and columns on art criticism and other subjects for newspapers. Lady Emma Cecile Gordon (b 26 May 1953), married Doctor Rodney Foale
Alexander Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (b 1955)
Lady Sophia Katherine Gordon (20 July 1960 – 28 December 2005).
Membership
Gordon was also a member of the International Association of Art Critics and the modern art correspondent for Connoisseur magazine in the 1960s.
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Nationality
United Kingdom