George Hamilton Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen

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George Hamilton Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen KG KT FRS PC 1784 – 1860 styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a Scottish politician, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

George Hamilton Gordon was an advocate of homeopathy, and he was a patient of James Manby Gully, who he described as the ‘… most gifted physician of the Age…’.

George Hamilton Gordon was a friend of William Gladstone, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot and Robert Peel.