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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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