The cannon fired regularly at the earl's seat, Haddo House north of Aberdeen, while a bonfire was held at Tarland, and church bells rang and fireworks were set off in the village of Methlick.

[3] Aberdeen was a Progressive member of the London County Council for Peckham from 1910 to 1925 and for Fulham West from 1931 to 1934.

On 6 August 1906, the 27-year-old Lord Haddo "horrified his family" by marrying 49-year-old Mary Florence Cockayne (née Clixby), the daughter of a Lincolnshire farmer and the widow of a Sheffield draper.

James William Guy Innes of Raemoir CBE and the daughter of Lt.-Col. John Foster Forbes of Rothiemay.

[3] Lord Aberdeen and Temair died in January 1965, aged 85, and was succeeded in the titles by his younger brother, Dudley.