Sir Baronet Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 28 Aug 1816, Rafford, Moray, Scotland

Alexander married Anne Pitcairn Campbell on 28 Nov 1845 in Rafford, Moray, Scotland. Anne (daughter of Rev. Augustus Campbell and Elizabeth Aspinall) was born on 17 Dec 1819 in Liverpool, Lancashire; died on 18 Aug 1888 in Gordonstoun, Morayshire, Scotland; was buried on 22 Aug 1888 in Gordonstoun, Morayshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lt. Col. Sir William Gordon Gordon Cumming, 4th Bart was born on 20 Jul 1848 in Forres, Moray, Scotland; died on 20 May 1930 in Altyre, Rafford, Moray, Scotland.

William married Eliza Maria Campbell on 11 Sep 1815 in Zurich, Switzerland. Eliza was born in 1794 in Rafford, Moray, Scotland; died on 21 Apr 1842 in Altyre, Rafford, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lady Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming (1795- 21 April 1842) was a Scottish aristocrat, horticulturalist, palaeontologist and scientific illustrator. Lady Cumming collected and studied Devonian fish fossils from the Old Red Sandstone of Morayshire, Scotland. She amassed a large and well-known collection which she illustrated, along with her daughter Lady Anne Seymour. Lady Cumming worked with other palaeontologists and geologists of the time including Louis Agassiz, William Buckland and Roderick Murchison. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Maria_Gordon-Cumming

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He was given the name of Alexander Cumming at birth. He was commissioned in 1794 with the rank of officer, in the service of the 13th Regiment. His name was legally changed to Alexander Gordon-Cumming under the terms of the will of Sir William Gordon of Gordonstoun, 1st Bt. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Strathspey Fencibles. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Inverness Burghs.
He suppressed a mutiny at Dumfries. He was created 1st Baronet Gordon-Cumming, of Altyre and of Gordonstoun, co. Moray on 21 May 1804. He lived at Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland. He lived at Gordonstoun, Scotland

See http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/cumming-gordon-alexander-penrose-1749-1806

Alexander married Helen Grant on 9 Sep 1773 in Moray, Scotland. Helen (daughter of Sir Ludovic Colquhoun Grant, 7th Baronet and Margaret Ogilvy) was born on 26 May 1754 in Altyre House, Rafford, Moray, Scotland; died on 1 Jan 1832 in Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Grace Pearce on 13 Jul 1747 in Penryn, Cornwall. Grace (daughter of William Pearce and Jane Penrose) was born on 14 Nov 1726 in Penrose, Cornwall; died on 4 May 1817 in Exeter, Devon; was buried in Newton St Cyrus, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sir Ludovick Grant, 7th Baronet (13 January 1707 – 18 March 1773) was a Scottish Member of Parliament.[1]

Grant was the son of Sir James Grant, 6th Baronet, and Anne Colquhoun. He succeeded his father as seventh Baronet of Colquhoun in 1747. In 1741 Grant was elected to the House of Commons for Elginshire, a seat he held until 1761.

Grant married firstly Marian Dalrymple. He married secondly Lady Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of the statesman James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and 1st Earl of Seafield.

His final address in Edinburgh is given as Parliament Close.[2]

He died in March 1773, aged 66, and was succeeded by his son from his second marriage, James Grant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovick_Grant

Ludovic married Margaret Ogilvy in Nov 1735. Margaret (daughter of James Ogilvy, Earl of Findlater and Elizabeth Hay) was born in 1715 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland; died on 20 Feb 1757 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]