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2 unusual facts about William Gordon-Cumming


William Gordon-Cumming

Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet (1787–1854), Scottish Member of Parliament for Elgin Burghs 1831–1832

Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet (1848–1930), Scottish soldier and adventurer, central figure in the Royal Baccarat Scandal


Alfred Jefferson Vaughan, Jr.

In this work Vaughan served as the private secretary of Alfred Cumming (uncle of Confederate general Alfred Cumming) who represented the railway in peace treaty talks with the Indians living on the upper portion of the Missouri River.

Angus Cumming

Angus Cumming describes the Strathspey as an ‘Old Highland Reel’ and indeed twenty six of the tunes in the collection appear with an alternative Gaelic title.

Angus Cumming produced the first collection of Strathspeys to be published by a person from Strathspey.

Berkeley John Talbot Levett

Levett was drawn into the scandal after a night in which Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet, a fellow officer from the Scots Guards, was accused of cheating at Baccarat, a card game.

Charles Cumming

In March 2008, Charles Cumming published an interactive online story, The 21 Steps, as part of a Penguin We Tell Stories project.

Clinton Marius

In 2002, he directed Jonathan Cumming's The Gladiator at the National Arts Festival, and co-ordinated A Slice of Madness, a season of theatre in Durban in which he appeared in David Campton's Mutatis Mutandis.

Craig Cumming

Craig Derek Cumming (born 31 August 1975 in Timaru) is a New Zealand cricketer.

Cyrus Alexander

In 1844, Alexander married Rufina Lucero (1830-1908), the sister of William Gordon's wife, Maria.

Digby Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton

On 5 August 1869 married Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming (16 June 1847-27 April 1922 Birdsall House, Birdsall).

Elma Napier

Born Elma Gordon-Cumming in Scotland, she was the eldest daughter of Sir William Gordon-Cumming, a wealthy landowner.

Eric Cumming

A professional sprinter, Cumming became the first and only Australian to win the prestigious New Year Sprint, at Powderhall Scotland in 1952.

Harold Glanville

Glanville’s first Parliamentary contest was for the constituency of Rotherhithe at the 1892 general election but he lost to the Conservative John Cumming Macdona by 1,230 votes.

Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.

Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia on March 10, 1900, the son of Hugh Smith Cumming, Sr. (1869–1948) and his wife, Lucy Booth Cumming (1871–1960).

John Madge

Cyril Bibby comments with reference to them as well as Maurice Dobb, the twins Francis and Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, Margot Heinemann and "the beautiful Eileen Wynne" that "it was noticeable how many of these extreme left-wingers came from privileged upper-class homes" (Reminiscences of a Happy Life, p.171)

Laurie Cumming

On 30 January 1937 with Cumming playing, Queen of the South condemned Rangers to a 1 - 0 first round Scottish Cup exit.

Marin Rowing Association

The Marin Rowing Association, located in Greenbrae, California, is a rowing association and non-profit organization founded in 1968 by Coach R.C. "Bob" Cumming.

Robert Holmes à Court

Cumming had helped raise Ethnee during her childhood on his estate outside Gweru.

Samuel Tenney

Tenney was elected as a Federalist to the 6th U.S. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Gordon; he was reelected to the 7th, 8th, and 9th Congresses and served from December 8, 1800, to March 3, 1807.

William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen

Lord Aberdeen's second wife also died giving birth to their last child and so he then married Lady Anne Gordon (a daughter of the 2nd Duke of Gordon) and they had six children,

Gordon's wife had died giving birth to their second child, and he then married Lady Susan Murray (the youngest child of the 1st Duke of Atholl) six years later and they had four children,

William Gordon, Lord Strathnaver

In 1719, the family name was changed to Sutherland, when his father was recognised as the Chief of Clan Sutherland.

William Johnston Dawson

Dawson was elected to the 3rd United States Congress in the election of Feb. 15, 1793, a three-way race in which he, as the Anti-Federalist candidate, defeated two Federalists: Stephen Cabarrus (Speaker of the State House) and William Cumming.

William N. Schoenfeld

P. J. Bersh, A. Charles Catania, W. W. Cumming, James A. Dinsmoor, Charles Ferster, Peter Harzem, Eliot S. Hearst, Francis Mechner, John Anthony Nevin, Ovide F. Pomerleau, Emilio Ribes, Murray Sidman.


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