"I recommend that my grandson be partly educated in Scotland that he do not despise his own country."

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Prime Ministers of the United KingdomUniversity of Cambridge alumniFellows of the Royal SocietyPoliticians from ScotlandBusinesspeople from the United Kingdom
Original Language: English

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George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, quoted in George Malcolm Thomson, Prime Ministers: From Robert Walpole to Margaret Thatcher (1980), p. 128