Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet of Altyre and Gordonstoun FRSE,
was a Scottish Member of Parliament.
Gordon-Cumming was Member of Parliament for Elgin Burghs from 1831 to 1832.Life
He was born on 20 July 1787, the son of Alexander Penrose Cumming, 1st baronet of Altyre, and his wife, Helen Grant.
In 1828 Gordon-Cumming was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Sir John Hay. Gordon-Cumming resigned in 1832.Family
He married twice, first in 1815 to Eliza Maria Campbell, the oldest daughter of Colonel John Campbell of Shawfield and Islay, with whom he had seven sons and six daughters.
He remarried in 1846 to Jane Eliza Mackintosh, daughter of William Mackintosh of Geddes, Nairn, with whom he had one son and two daughters.
