Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly

Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly (4 January 1792 – 18 September 1863), styled Lord Strathavon from 1794 to 1836 and Earl of Aboyne from 1836 to 1853, was a Scottish peer, politician, courtier, and cricketer.

His younger siblings included Lady Catherine Susan Gordon (wife of Charles Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham);[1] Lord George Gordon (the Rector of Chesterton who married Charlotte Anne Vaughan);[1] Lady Charlotte Sophia Gordon;[1] Lady Mary Gordon (who married Frederick Charles William Seymour, Esq., a son of Lord Hugh Seymour);[1] Adm. Lord Frederick Gordon-Hallyburton (who married Lady Augusta FitzClarence, a sister of George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster, and the daughter of King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan);[1] Maj. Lord Henry Gordon (who married Louisa Payne);[1] Lord Cecil James Gordon-Moore (who married Emily Moore);[1] and Lord Francis Gordon (who married Isabel Grant, a daughter of Lt.-Gen. Sir William Keir Grant).

[3][4] His brother, Francis Gordon, also played some first-class cricket, including for MCC, and appeared alongside Huntly for the Gentlemen in 1827.

Charles Layard, Dean of Bristol), whose family were West Indies planters of French Huguenot background.

[3] With Marie, he had fourteen children, the last born five months after his death:[1] Lord Huntly died at Orton Longueville 18 September 1863, aged 71.

Heraldic achievement of the Marquess of Huntly , Chief of Clan Gordon
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Conyngham by Sir Thomas Lawrence in the early 1820s, is in the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian , Lisbon.