Gordon, George Hamilton-, fourth earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860), prime minister and scholar

by Muriel E. Chamberlain

  • Family and early life
  • Scholar and landlord
  • Marriage and religion
  • Representative peer
  • Vienna embassy and Napoleonic wars
  • Foreign and colonial secretary, 1828–1835
  • Foreign secretary, 1841–1846
  • Prime minister
  • Resignation and death
  • Reputation and assessment

References

See also

Themes

  • Secretaries of state for war
  • Secretaries of state for the colonies
  • Secretaries of state for foreign affairs
  • Prime ministers of the United Kingdom
  • Leaders of the Liberal, Social Democratic, and (Social and) Liberal Democrat parties
  • Leaders of the Conservative and the Conservative and Unionist parties
  • Society of Dilettanti

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives

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