George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly, (28 June 1761 – 17 June 1853), styled Lord Strathavon until 1795 and Earl of Aboyne from 1795 to 1836, was a Scottish peer and soldier.
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Early life
George was the son of Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne, and Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway. He was educated at Eton. His only surviving sister, Lady Margaret Gordon, married William Beckford. After his mother's death in August 1762, his father remarried to Lady Mary Douglas (a daughter of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton). From this marriage, he had a younger half-brother, Lord Douglas Gordon (who married Louisa Leslie).
His paternal grandparents were John Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aboyne (eldest son of Charles Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aboyne and, his cousin, Lady Elizabeth Lyon, second daughter of Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne) and the former Grace Lockhart (a daughter of George Lockhart of Carnwath). Through the male line, his great-great-grandfather, Charles Gordon, 1st Earl of Aboyne was the fourth son of George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly. His mother was the third daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and, his second wife, Lady Catherine Cochrane (the third and youngest daughter of John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald). Among his mother's siblings were John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway (who married Lady Charlotte Mary Greville, and Anne Dashwood); Hon. George Stewart (a Lieutenant who died at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War); Hon. Keith Stewart of Glasserton (who married Georgina Isabella d'Aguilar); Lady Catherine Stewart (wife of James Murray of Broughton); Lady Susanna Stewart (the wife of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford); Lady Harriet Stewart (the wife of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton); and Lady Charlotte Stewart (the wife of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore).