Major
David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of
Aberdeen and Temair,
CBE,
K.StJ (January 21, 1908 –
September 13, 1974) was a
British
peer and the son of
Dudley
Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair.
Gordon
attended Harrow
School
and graduated from Balliol College,
Oxford
, in 1930 with a Bachelor of Arts, then with a Masters in 1968.
He gained the rank of Major in the service of the 5th/7th Battalion
of the
Gordon Highlanders and
fought in the
Second World
War.
He held
the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire
in 1949, Vice-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire from 1959
to 1974 and Lord-Lieutenant of
Aberdeenshire in 1973.
He was a County Councillor for Aberdeenshire in 1950 and
Justice of the Peace for Aberdeenshire
in 1955.
He was admitted to Royal Company of Archers in 1955 and invested as
a Commander of the
Order of
the British Empire in 1963. He was invested as a Knight of the
Order of St John in 1964
and was a director of Northern Area
Clydesdale Bank in 1968.
On April 29, 1939, he married
Beatrice Mary
June Boissier, the daughter of
Arthur Boissier, Headmaster of Harrow School
(1939–1942). They had four (adopted) children:
- Mary Katherine Gordon (b. 30 May 1946), married Simon Piers
Welfare and had issue.
- Sarah Caroline Gordon (b. 25 March 1948), married Patrick John
Raleigh Scott and had issue.
- Andrew David Gordon (b. 6 March 1950), married Lucy Mary
Frances Milligan and had issue.
- James Drummond Gordon (b. 11 April 1953, married Marilyn
Sim.
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