Gordon baronets

There have been eleven Gordon Baronetcies  :

Gordon of Letterfourie, Sutherland (1625)[]

The creation of Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, 4th son of the Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland, to the Baronetage of Nova Scotia was the first such in that Baronetage, and until the line failed in 1908 were the premier baronets in Scotland.^[1]

Gordon of Gordonstoun[]

• Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet (1580–1656), MP for Invernesshire
• (1624 – c. 1685), MP for Elgin & Forresshire
• Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet FRS (1647–1704), MP for Sutherland
• Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet (1696–1772), MP for Caithness 1715–1722
• (c. 1738 – 1776)
• (died 1795)

Gordon of Letterfourie[]

• (1715–1797), never assumed title, dormant until 1806^[2]
• (1779–1843)
• (1803–1861)
• (1824–1908)

baronetcy dormant 24 Mar 1908

Gordon of Cluny, Aberdeen (1625)[]

• (died c. 1648)
• (died c. 1668)

baronetcy dormant c 1668

Gordon of Lesmore, Aberdeen (1625)[]

• (died c. 1640)
• (died c. 1647)
• (died c. 1671)
• (died c. 1684)
• (died c. 1710)
• (died 1750)
• (died 1782)
• (c. 1764 – 1839)

baronetcy dormant 9 Nov 1839

Gordon of Lochinvar, Kirkcudbright (1626)[]

• Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar, 1st Baronet (c 1565 – 1628)
• Sir John Gordon, 2nd Baronet (1599–1634) created Viscount of Kenmure in 1633

Baronetcy merged with Viscountcy until it became dormant in 1847

Gordon of Embo, Sutherland (1631)[]

• (died 1649)
• (died 1697)
• (died 1701)
• (died 1760)
• (died 1779)
• (died 1786)
• (1736–1804)
• (died 1804)
• (died 1857)
• (1818–1876)
• (1845–1906)
• Sir Home Seton Charles Montagu Gordon, 12th Baronet (1871–1956)

Baronetcy extinct or dormant 9 Sep 1956

Gordon of Haddo, Aberdeen (1642)[]

see Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

Gordon of Park, Banff (1686)[]

• (died 1713)
• (died 1727)
• (died 1751)
• (1749–1780)
• (1779–1835)

baronetcy extinct or dormant 23 Jul 1835

Gordon of Dalpholly, Sutherland (1704)[]

also known as Gordon of Invergordon^[3]

• Sir William Gordon, 1st Baronet (died 1742) MP for Sutherlandshire 1708–1713 and 1714–1727 and Cromartyshire 1741–1742
• (c. 1707 – 1783) MP for Cromartyshire 1742–1747 and 1754–1761
• (died 1817) Rector of West Tilbury in Essex
• (died 1840)
• (died 1850)

baronetcy dormant 1850

Gordon of Earlston, Kirkcudbright (1706)[]

• (1654–1718)
• Sir Alexander Gordon, 2nd Baronet (1650–1726)
• (1685–1769)
• (1720–1795)
• (1780–1843)
• (1830–1906)
• (1835–1910)
• (1862–1939)
• (1901–1982)
• (born 1932)

Gordon of Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire (1764)[]

• (died 1780)
• Sir Jenison William Gordon, 2nd Baronet (1747–1831)

baronetcy extinct 1831^[4]

Gordon of Northcourt, Isle of Wight (1818)[]

• Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Baronet (1772–1851)
• Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet (1806–1876)

baronetcy extinct 1876

References[]

Notes[]

Sources[]

• Cokayne. Complete Baronetage. V vols. Exeter, 1902. [1]

Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "G" (part 2)