The daughter of Hon. John Douglas; in 1809 she married James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton; upon his death, in 1815 she became the second wife George Hamilton-Gordon, earl of Aberdeen.

REFERENCES TO Harriet Gordon, countess of Aberdeen [née Douglas]:

Lady Morgan to Lady Margaret Stanley, 28 April 1812 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)