ABERDEEN AND TEMAIR, JOHN CAMPBELL GORDON, 1ST MARQUESS OF P.C., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.T., second son of the fifth earl of Aberdeen, was born in Edinburgh Aug. 3, 1847. He was educated at Oxford and suc ceeded his brother as sixth earl of Aberdeen in 1870, taking his seat in the House of Lords early in 1873 and at once plunging into committee work. After being lord high commissioner to the gen eral assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1881 to 1885— an office he again filled in 1915—Mr. Gladstone appointed him lord lieutenant of Ireland in his short administration (Feb.–July) of 1886. Soon after the Liberals' next accession to power he be came governor general of Canada (1893) and after his return to England in 1898 took little part in politics. In Dec. 1905 he was again appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland; he held this office till May 1915, and in the following January received the title of Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (Tara). Both in Canada and in Ireland Lord Aberdeen's terms of office were distinguished by the cordial relationship which he maintained with the different peo ples over whom he presided. He died March 7, 1934, and was succeeded by his son, the earl of Haddo (1879– ).
In 1877 Lord Aberdeen married the Hon. Ishbel Maria Majori banks, a daughter of Lord Tweedmouth.
See We Twa: Reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen (1925).