A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . ions of Edinburgh. The fourth Duke of Gordon died in 1827, when he was succeeded byhis only surviving son, 15. George, fifth and last Duke of Gordon, who was born in Edinburgh, 1st February 1770. In 1791, as Marquis ofHuntly, he raised an independent company of Foot; the same year hada company in the 42nd Highlanders; and in 1792 was made Captain-Lieutenant of the 3rd regiment of Foot Guards. While the 42nd wasstationed in Edinburgh, M
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . ions of Edinburgh. The fourth Duke of Gordon died in 1827, when he was succeeded byhis only surviving son, 15. George, fifth and last Duke of Gordon, who was born in Edinburgh, 1st February 1770. In 1791, as Marquis ofHuntly, he raised an independent company of Foot; the same year hada company in the 42nd Highlanders; and in 1792 was made Captain-Lieutenant of the 3rd regiment of Foot Guards. While the 42nd wasstationed in Edinburgh, Mr. Kay embraced the opportunity of etching theMarquis, who accordingly appears as A Highland Chieftain in the firstvolume of his well-known Portraits. About the same period Lord Huntlycompeted, with a sporting nobleman, in a daring race on horseback fromthe Abbey Strand, at the foot of the Canongate, to the gate of EdinburghCastle. He afterwards raised the 100th, now the 92nd, Foot, both the Dukeand Duchess, as well as the Marquis, personally recruiting in the mostenergetic manner. This gallant regiment was embodied at Aberdeen on FIFTH AND LAST DUKE 445. the 24th of June 1794,1 and on Huntlys becoming Lieutenant-ColonelCommandant, he accompanied it to the Mediterranean. In January 1796the corps was ordered from Corsica to Gibraltar. Leaving Gibraltar, theMarquis embarked at Corunna, on the 14th of September, in a packetwhich, three days afterwards, was taken by a French privateer. After 1 The centenary of the 92nd Gordon High-landers was celebrated at Maryhill Barracks,Glasgow, on the 9th and 10th of August 1894,when new colours were presented to the bat-talion by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon,in the presence of five or six thousand persons,including upwards of two hundred veterans,former members of the regiment. In makingthe presentation, his Grace said : I esteem ita great honour to have been intrusted with the duty of presenting the new colours to the regi-ment which has
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