Monarch Victoria Political party Liberal Party Liberal Party Nationality British Spouse Charlotte Fallon | Succeeded by The Lord Carrington Died February 20, 1937 Preceded by The Earl Fife Name Charles 11th | |
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Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone Born 5 March 1847 ( 1847-03-05 ) Education Trinity College, Cambridge, Eton College | ||
Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly PC, DL, JP (5 March 1847 – 20 February 1937), styled Lord Strathavon until 1853 and Earl of Aboyne between 1853 and 1863, was a Scottish Liberal politician. He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms between January and June 1881.
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Background and education
Huntly was the son of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly, by his second wife Maria Antoinette, daughter of Reverend Peter William Pegus, and succeeded to the marquessate in 1863 at the age of sixteen. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Political career
In 1870 Huntly was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the first Liberal administration of William Ewart Gladstone, a post he held until 1873, and served from January to June 1881 as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (government chief whip in the House of Lords) in Gladstone's second administration. In 1881 he was sworn of the Privy Council. In 1930 he became Father of the House of Lords.
Apart from his political career, Lord Huntly was Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen between 1890 and 1896. He also published Auld Acquaintances and Milestones and edited Records of Aboyne.
Family
Lord Huntly married firstly Amy, daughter of Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet, in 1869. After her death in 1920 he married secondly Charlotte Isabella, daughter of John H. Fallon and widow of James Macdonald, in 1922. Both marriages were childless. Huntly died in February 1937, aged 89, and was succeeded in the marquessate by his great-nephew, Douglas Gordon. The Marchioness of Huntly died in May 1939.