"Aberdeen was a spare man, of grave and formal but singularly refined manners, with studious habits and fastidious tastes. Though he was an ungraceful speaker, and his voice dull and monotonous, his speeches were weighty and impressive. Without genius or ambition he showed a remarkable love of justice, honesty, and simplicity, and singular courage in expressing unpopular opinions. Despite his cold exterior he was a delightful companion. With the exception of the Greek intervention in 1829, Aberdeen, while foreign secretary, resolutely followed a policy of nonintervention. His cautious and conciliatory foreign policy contrasted strangely with Palmerston's methods, and the friendly relations which he had established with the foreign courts often led to unjust suspicions of his sympathy with continental despotism."
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George Fisher Russell Barker, 'Gordon, George Hamilton', Dictionary of National Biography, Volume XXII. Glover—Gravet, eds. Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (1890), pp. 202-203
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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
1784 – 1860
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen KG KT PC FRS FRSE FSA Scot (28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs. He served as Prime Minister from 1852 until 1855 in a coalition between the [[Whigs (British political party)|W
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