Harrow-educated Scottish philhellene who founded the Athenian Society and was elected to the Society of Dilettanti (1805); he was foreign secretary (1841-1846) and prime minister (1852-55).

REFERENCES TO George Hamilton- Gordon, fourth earl of Aberdeen:

Sydney Owenson to Alicia Le Fanu, 18 January 1810 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 July 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

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)

Lady Morgan to Alicia Le Fanu, 7 June 1812 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Lady Morgan to Alicia Le Fanu, 26 June 1812 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 10 December 1812 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Walter Scott to John Murray, 6 January 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [4 January 1819] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Uvedale Price to Samuel Rogers, 8 December 1824 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Uvedale Price to Samuel Rogers, 26 December 1824 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Henry Drury to Francis Hodgson, 29 December 1828 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 8 July 1829 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [6] December 1831 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Samuel Rogers to Lord Melbourne, 15 August 1838 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, [18 June 1850] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Henry Holland to Samuel Rogers, [July 1850] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)