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{{short description|Scottish peer and politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Most Honourable]]
| name                = The Marquess of Huntly
| honorific-suffix    = 
| image               = File:The Vindication - Lord Aboyne.png
| caption             = Lord Strathavon cartooned by [[John Doyle (Irish artist)|H.B. Doyle]], 1828
| office              = [[Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire]]
| term_start          = 1861
| term_end            = 1863
| predecessor         = [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen|The Earl of Aberdeen]]
| successor           = [[Francis Keith-Falconer, 8th Earl of Kintore|The Earl of Kintore]]
| office1             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Huntingdonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Huntingdonshire]]
| term_start1         = 1830
| term_end1           = 1831
| alongside1          = [[George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester|Viscount Mandeville]]
| predecessor1        = [[William Henry Fellowes|William Fellowes]]<br />[[George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester|Viscount Mandeville]]
| successor1          = [[Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron de Ramsey|Edward Fellowes]]<br />[[George Thornhill (MP)|George Thornhill]]
| office2             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[East Grinstead (UK Parliament constituency)|East Grinstead]]
| term_start2         = 1818
| term_end2           = 1830
| alongside2          = [[George William Gunning]], [[Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool|Charles Jenkinson]], [[William Amherst, 2nd Earl Amherst|Viscount Holmesdale]]
| predecessor2        = [[George William Gunning]]<br />[[George Johnstone Hope|Sir George Hope]]
| successor2          = [[William Amherst, 2nd Earl Amherst|Viscount Holmesdale]]<br />[[Frederick Richard West|Frederick West]]
| birth_name          = Charles Gordon
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1792|01|04|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Orton Longueville]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1863|09|18|1792|01|04|df=y}}
| death_place         = Orton Longueville
| nationality         = [[British people|British]]
| party               = [[Tories (British political party)|Tory]]
| alma_mater          = [[St John's College, Cambridge]]
| parents             = [[George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly]]<br />Catherine Cope
| spouse              = {{plainlist|
*{{marriage|Lady Elizabeth Conyngham|March 1826|1839|reason=her death}}
*{{marriage|Marie Antoinette Pegus|April 1844}}
}}
| children            = 13
| relations           = [[Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne]] (grandfather)
| image_size          = 200px
}}
[[File:Coat of arm of the marquess of Huntly - Premier marquess of Scotland.png|thumb|Heraldic achievement of the [[Marquess of Huntly]], Chief of [[Clan Gordon]]]]
'''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 [[Peerage of Scotland|Scottish peer]], politician, courtier, and cricketer. He was a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]], first as a [[Tory]] (1818–1830) and then a [[British Whig Party|Whig]] (1830 onwards).

==Early and political life==
Huntly was born at [[Orton Longueville]] in 1792, the eldest son of the [[George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly|5th Earl of Aboyne]] (later [[Marquess of Huntly]]) and his wife, Catherine Cope (of the [[Cope baronets]] of [[Bruern]]). His younger siblings included Lady Catherine Susan Gordon (wife of [[Charles Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham]]);<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/> Lord George Gordon (the Rector of Chesterton who married Charlotte Anne Vaughan);<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/> Lady Charlotte Sophia Gordon;<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/> Lady Mary Gordon (who married Frederick Charles William Seymour, Esq., a son of [[Lord Hugh Seymour]]);<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/> Adm. [[Lord Frederick Gordon-Hallyburton]] (who married [[Lady Augusta Gordon|Lady Augusta FitzClarence]], a sister of [[George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster]], and the daughter of King [[William IV]] and his mistress [[Dorothea Jordan]]);<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/> Maj. Lord Henry Gordon (who married Louisa Payne);<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/> Lord Cecil James Gordon-Moore (who married Emily Moore);<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/> and [[Francis Gordon|Lord Francis Gordon]] (who married Isabel Grant, a daughter of Lt.-Gen. Sir [[William Keir Grant]]).<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>

He was educated at [[St John's College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id=GRDN810C|name=Gordon, Charles (Lord Strathaven)}}</ref>

==Career==
Gordon entered [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] in 1818 as a Tory [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] for [[East Grinstead (UK Parliament constituency)|East Grinstead]] before being elected as a Whig MP for [[Huntingdonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Huntingdonshire]] in 1830.

From 1826 to 1830, he was a [[Lord of the Bedchamber]] during the reign of [[George IV|King George IV]], and then a [[Lord-in-waiting]] from 1840 to 1841, his last office being that of [[Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire]] from 1861 until his death.<ref name=carlaw/>

Upon his father's death in 1853, he inherited the [[Marquess of Huntly|Marquessate of Huntly]] and the [[Earl of Aboyne|Earldom of Aboyne]] (both in the [[Peerage of Scotland]]) and the [[Baron Meldrum|Meldrum Barony]] in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]].<ref name="MarquessHuntly">{{cite web |title=Huntly, Marquess of (S, 1599) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/huntly1599.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |accessdate=15 October 2020}}</ref>

===Cricket===
Huntly played [[first-class cricket]] for Hampshire, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, and the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) between 1819 and 1843. He also appeared in first-class matches for W Ward's XI, [[Gentlemen v Players|both the Players and the Gentlemen]], a Married XI, Lord Strathavon's XI (his own side), and the Gentlemen of Kent.<ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27397/27397.html Earl of Aboyne], CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2019. {{subscription required}}</ref> In 33 first-class matches, he scored a total of 193 runs, with a highest score of 19 against [[Oxford University]], at a [[batting average (cricket)|batting average]] of 4.02 runs per innings, only reaching double-figures on four occasions in 61 innings.<ref name=carlaw>Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 18–19. ([https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_One_Revised_Expanded.pdf Available online] at the [[Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians]]. Retrieved 16 August 2022.)</ref><ref name=ci>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/8655.html Earl of Aboyne], [[CricInfo]]. Retrieved 26 December 2019.</ref>

Huntly played for both the Players and the Gentlemen in the annual matches between the two sides, uniquely becoming the only member of the aristocracy to appear for the Players when he did so in 1819. This appears to have been due to him having placed a bet on the Players. He played for the Gentlemen in the fixture in 1827.<ref name=carlaw/>

He was a member of MCC for around 50 years and its president in 1821–22.<ref name=carlaw/><ref name=ca/> His brother, [[Francis Gordon]], also played some first-class cricket, including for MCC, and appeared alongside Huntly for the Gentlemen in 1827. The brother's father had been an early member of MCC.<ref name=ca/>

==Personal life==
[[File:Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Conyngham (1821–1824).jpg|thumb|right|Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Conyngham by Sir [[Thomas Lawrence]] in the early 1820s, is in the [[Museu Calouste Gulbenkian]], Lisbon.]] 
In March 1826, he was married to Lady Elizabeth Conyngham, the eldest daughter of [[Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham]], and the former [[Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham|Elizabeth Denison]], King George IV's mistress. They did not have any children before her death in 1839.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>

At age 52, Huntly married Marie Antoinette Pegus ({{Circa|1821}}–1893), the only surviving daughter of Rev. William Peter Pegus and the former Charlotte Susanna Layard (a daughter of Very Rev. [[Charles Layard (priest)|Charles Layard]], Dean of Bristol), whose family were West Indies [[Planter class|planters]] of [[Huguenots|French Huguenot]] background.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Agnew |first=David Carnegie Andrew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNdSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA204 |title=Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV: Or, The Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland |date=1871 |publisher=Reeves & Turner |pages=204 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rev. Peter William Pegus |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/45621 |website=Legacies of British Slavery}}</ref> Marie was a half-sister of [[George Bertie, 10th Earl of Lindsey]].<ref name=carlaw/> With Marie, he had fourteen children, the last born five months after his death:<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>

* Lady Mary Catherine Gordon (1845–1930), who married [[Edmund Turnor (politician, born 1838)|Edmund Turnor]], in 1866.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lady Evelyn Elizabeth Gordon (1846–1921), who married [[Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster]], in 1863.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* [[Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly]] (1847–1937), a [[Lord in Waiting]], [[Captain of the Gentlemen at Arms]], [[Privy Council]]lor and [[Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen]].<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lord Lewis Gordon (1848–1870), who was lost at sea in [[HMS Captain (1869)|HMS ''Captain'']].<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lord Bertrand Gordon (1850–1869), who died unmarried.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* [[Lord Douglas Gordon|Lord Douglas William Cope Gordon]] (1851–1888), a Lt.-Col. and Member of Parliament.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lord Esmé Stuart Gordon (1853–1900), who married Elizabeth Anne Phippen Brown in 1874.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lady Grace Cecilie Gordon (1854–1941), who married [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale]] in 1878.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lord Granville Armyne Gordon (1856–1907), who married Charlotte D'Olier Roe, a daughter of Henry Roe of Mount Dunville Park, in 1878.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lady Margaret Ethel Gordon (1858–1950), who married [[George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech]], in 1881.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lord Randolph Seaton Gordon (1859–1859), who died young.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lady Elena Mary Gordon (1861–1936), who married Maj. George Lamplugh Wickham of Wetherby, in 1885.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lady Edith Blanche Gordon (1861–1862).<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>
* Lady Ethelreda Caroline Gordon (1864–1961), who married Lt.-Col. Henry Wickham of Oundle, youngest son of Lamplugh Wickham, in 1884.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>

Lord Huntly died at Orton Longueville 18 September 1863, aged 71.<ref name=ci/> His titles passed to his eldest son, [[Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly|Charles]]. His widow died on 10 August 1893.<ref name="MarquessHuntly"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-charles-gordon-1 | the Marquess of Huntly }}

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 | years  = 1818–1830
 | with   = [[George William Gunning]] 1812–1818<br />[[Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool|Charles Jenkinson]] 1818–1829
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 | with   = [[George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester|Viscount Mandeville]]
 | before = [[William Henry Fellowes|William Fellowes]]<br />[[George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester|Viscount Mandeville]]
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