John Fordyce

(1735-1809)

LBT ID: JoFordy1809	B/BAP: 1735 DIED: 1809-07-01
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (July 1809) 685; leighrayment.com
Of Ayton in Berwick; he was MP for New Romney (1796-1802) and Berwick (1802-03) and surveyor-general of the Land Revenue. He married a sister of the Duchess of Gordon.
REFERENCES TO John Fordyce: Duchess of Devonshire to Lady Melbourne, [February 1802?] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 13 April 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. II: 1805 Found 1: ¶ n1 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter II.