A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Gordonstown, a mansion in Drainie parish, Elginshire, 1 ¼ mile from the coast, and 5½ miles NNW of Elgin. The estate was purchased in 1636 and following years by the second son of the eleventh Earl of Sutherland, Sir Robert Gordon, vice-chamberlain of Scotland and a lord of the privy council, who, on 26 May 1625, had been created a baronet, this being the premier Scottish baronetcy. His grandson is famous in Morayshire legend as'Sir Robert the Warnock,'and his grandson, the sixth baronet, dying unmarried in 1795, the title passed to Gordon of Letterfourie, the estate to AlexPenrose Cumming, Esq. of Altyre, who himself was created a baronet in 1804. His nephew, Roualeyn George (1820-66), is remembered by his Five Years' Adventures in the Far Interior of South Africa; and bis great-grandson, Sir William-Gordon Gordon-Cumming, present and fourth Bart. (b. 1848; suc. 1866), holds 36,387 acres in Elginshire and 2112 in Nairnshire, valued at £13,685 and £156 per annum. A building mainly of 1775-76, Gordonstown consists of a large square central block of masoury, with E and W turreted wings, dining and drawing rooms each 60 feet long, a good many fine paintings, etc.-Ord. Sur., sh. 95, 1876.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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