A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . er of Elias Levi; secondly,3rd October 1770, Catherine Wallop, only daughter of John, ViscountLymington, and sister of John, Earl of Portsmouth. Besides otherchildren, they had two sons :— 1. The Rev. Lockhart Gordon. 2. Lieutenant Loudon Harcourt Gordon. 4. Charles, fourth Earl of Aboyne, born about 1726; succeeded his father in 1732. After he came of age,being apprehensive that, from the smallness of his estate, he could not livein S
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries [With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . er of Elias Levi; secondly,3rd October 1770, Catherine Wallop, only daughter of John, ViscountLymington, and sister of John, Earl of Portsmouth. Besides otherchildren, they had two sons :— 1. The Rev. Lockhart Gordon. 2. Lieutenant Loudon Harcourt Gordon. 4. Charles, fourth Earl of Aboyne, born about 1726; succeeded his father in 1732. After he came of age,being apprehensive that, from the smallness of his estate, he could not livein Scotland suitably to his rank, he sent his belongings to Paris, withthe view of residing abroad. Unwilling, however, to abandon his nativecountry, he ordered them to be brought back, and carefully attended to theimprovement of his estate, forming plantations, building forty miles of stonefences above five feet high to enclose and subdivide his property, andintroducing superior modes of agriculture among his tenants, who werethus enabled to pay an advanced rent. Lord Aboyne soon contrived to 1 Calcutta Chronicle, 27th March 1788. 454 HALYBURTON OF PITCUR. clear his estate of debt; was greatly respected by his friends and neigh-bours ; and after a remarkably active and useful life, closed his career inEdinburgh, 28th December 1794, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. By his first wife, Lady Margaret Stewart, third daughter of Alexander, sixth Earl of Galloway (to whom hewas married in Edinburgh, 22nd April1759, and who died at Aboyne Castle,12th August 1762), he had a son and twodaughters :— 1. George, fifth Earl of Aboyne. 2. Lady Catherine. 3. Lady Margaret, married, 5th May1783, to William Beckford of Fonthill,Wiltshire, for Wells, only son ofWilliam Beckford of Fonthill-Gifford,Lord Mayor of London and Member ofParliament for that city, and died at Castlede la Tour, in the Pays de Vaud, of amiliary fever, 23rd May 1786, leavingtwo daughters. The fourth Earl of Aboyne
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