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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], The late Earl of Aberdeen. (search)
Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, has occupied prominent positions in his life-time. He was a conservative statesman, descended of an ancient Scottish house, was born in 1784, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of M. A. in 1804. In that year, having resided some time in Greece, he founded the Athenian Society, of which no one might be a member who had not visited Athens. In 1813, he was sent to Vienna, as Ambassador of England, and concluded at Toplitz, October 3d, 1813, the preliminary negotiations by which Austria was detached from the French alliance, and united with England, against Napoleon. He subsequently brought about the alliance of Murat, King of Naples, with Austria; but in 1515 exerted himself vainly to prevent the rupture which took place between the courts of Naples and Vienna, and resulted in the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of the former State. Elected in 1814 a Scottish representative Peer, he uniformly approved himself