NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of, 1784-1860 NRA: Gordon George Hamilton- (1784-1860) 4th Earl of Aberdeen statesman DNB: Gordon, George Hamilton-, fourth earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), prime minister and scholar LBT ID: LdAberd4 VIAF ID: 66475619 LOC ID: n82023883 | B/BAP: 1784-01-28 DIED: 1860-12-14 |
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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). | |