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Alexander Penrose Gordon Cumming

1816–66

Scottish army officer. Captain in the Seventy-first Highlanders and Fourth Light Dragoons; major in the Inverness and Elgin Militia. Succeeded to the baronetcy in 1854. Justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for Elgin.

Source

County families.

Bibliography

County families: The county families of the United Kingdom; or, royal manual of the titled & untitled aristocracy of Great Britain & Ireland. By Edward Walford. London: Robert Hardwicke; Chatto & Windus. 1860–93. Walford’s county families of the United Kingdom or royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London: Chatto & Windus; Spottiswoode & Co. 1894–1920.

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