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unusual facts about Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon



Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon

She was born at Myrton Castle the now ruined castle a short distance from the present seat of the family, Monreith House, which was not built until fifty years later.

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So his eldest son, Lord Brome, was therefore considered suitable for Louisa (Gordon Castle, 27 December 1776 – Park Crescent, Middlesex, 5 December 1850), the fourth daughter.

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There is at Monreith House a letter written, left handed, by her after the accident explaining how it happened.

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Neither potential husband worked out, and Charlotte later married on 9 September 1789 at Gordon Castle Colonel Charles Lennox, the future 4th Duke of Richmond.

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For the next 20 years, the Duke and Duchess lived at Gordon Castle in Morayshire which Jane’s husband enlarged to be one of the largest homes in Scotland - with a facade 600 feet long and an 84 foot high central tower.

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Susan (Gordon Castle, 2 February 1774 – Bedfont Lodge, 26 August 1828), the third daughter, married on 7 October 1793 in Edinburgh William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester, and Madeleine (Gordon Castle, 1772 – 31 May 1847), the second daughter, married firstly on 2 April 1789 in London Sir Robert Sinclair, 7th Baronet.

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In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, she took her younger daughter, Georgiana (Gordon Castle, 18 July 1781 – Nice, 24 February 1853), to Paris with a view to marrying her to the son of the Empress Joséphine, Eugène de Beauharnais.


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