Background
Huntly was the eldest son of the 5th Earl of Aboyne (later Marquess of Huntly) and his wife, Catherine.
Huntly was the eldest son of the 5th Earl of Aboyne (later Marquess of Huntly) and his wife, Catherine.
He was educated at Street John"s College, Cambridge, and entered Parliament in 1818 as a Tory Member of Parliament for East Grinstead before being elected as a Whig Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire in 1830.
From 1826 to 1830, he was a Lord of the Bedchamber and then a Lord-in-Waiting from 1840 to 1841, his last office being that of Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire from 1861 until his death. On 20 March 1826, Lord Strathavon married Lady Elizabeth Conyngham (the eldest daughter of the 1st Marquess Conyngham). Elizabeth died in 1839 and the by-now Earl of Aboyne married Maria Antoinetta Pegus, a half-sister of George Frederick Albemarle Bertie, 10th Earl of Lindsey, on 10 April 1844.
They had fourteen children:
Lord Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly
Lord Lewis Gordon, lost at sea in HMS Captain (3 May 1848 – 7 September 1870)
Lord Bertrand Gordon (24 July 1850 – 10 August 1869)
Lieutenant Colonel Lord Douglas William Cope Gordon Member of Parliament (11 October 1851 – 4 August 1888)
Lord Esmé Stuart Gordon (12 March 1853 – 29 September 1900), married Elizabeth Anne Phippen Brown on 21 July 1874, and had issue
Lord Granville Armyne Gordon (14 June 1856 – 14 June 1907), married Charlotte Doctorate"Olier Roe (died 28 May 1900), on 4 September 1878, and had issue from whom descend the 12th and 13th Marquesses
Lord Randolph Seaton Gordon (17 May 1859 – 16 July 1859)
Lady Mary Katherine Gordon Commander of the Order of the British Empire (8 January 1845 – 8 September 1930), married Edmund Turnor, on 17 April 1866
Lady Evelyn Elizabeth Gordon (22 March 1846 – 16 March 1921), married Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster, on 14 July 1863, and had issue
Lady Grace Cecilie Gordon Commander of the Order of the British Empire (15 October 1854 – 12 May 1941), married Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale on 27 June 1878
Lady Margaret Ethel Gordon (5 February 1858 – 25 April 1950), married George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, 25 July 1881, and had issue
Lady Elena Mary Gordon (29 November 1861 – 19 January 1936), married Major George Lamplugh Wickham, on 28 February 1885, and had issue
Lady Edith Blanche Gordon (29 November 1861 – 25 December 1862)
Lady Ethelreda Caroline Gordon (31 January 1864 – 9 May 1961)
Huntley played first-class cricket for Hampshire, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Marylebone Club in an amateur career which stretched from 1819 to 1843.
He also appeared for West Ward"s XI, the Players, the Gentlemen, the Married, Lord Strathavon"s XI (his own club) and the Gentlemen of Kent. In 33 matches he scored a total of 193 runs, with a highest score of 19 against Oxford University, at an average of 4.02.
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