Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly (4 January 1792 – 18 September 1863), styled Lord Strathavon from 1794 to 1836 and Earl of Aboyne from 1836 to 1853, was a Scottish peer and first a Tory (1818–1830) and then a Whig (1830 onwards) politician. Early and political life Huntly was born at Orton Longueville in 1792, the eldest son of the 5th Earl of Aboyne (later Marquess of Huntly) and his wife, Catherine Cope (of the Cope baronets of Bruern). His younger siblings included Lady Catherine Susan Gordon (wife of Charles Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham); Lord George Gordon (the Rector of Chesterton who married Charlotte Anne Vaughan); Lady Charlotte Sophia Gordon; Lady Mary Gordon (who married Frederick Charles William Seymour, Esq., a son of Lord Hugh Seymour); Adm. Lord Frederick Gordon-Hallyburton (who married Lady Augusta FitzClarence, a sister of George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster, and the daughter of King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan); Maj. Lord Henry Gordon (who married Louisa Payne); Lord Cecil James Gordon-Moore (who married Emily Moore); and Lord Francis Gordon (who married Isabel Grant, a daughter of Lt.-Gen. Sir William Keir Grant). He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Career Gordon entered Parliament in 1818 as a Tory MP for East Grinstead before being elected as a Whig MP for Huntingdonshire in 1830. From 1826 to 1830, he was a Lord of the Bedchamber and then a Lord-in-waiting from 1840 to 1841, his last office being that of Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire from 1861 until his death. Upon his father's death in 1853, he inherited the Marquessate of Huntly and the Earldom of Aboyne (both in the Peerage of Scotland) and the Meldrum Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Cricket Huntly played first-class cricket for Hampshire, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1819 and 1843. He also appeared in first-class matches for W Ward's XI, both the Players and the Gentlemen, a Married XI, Lord Strathavon's XI (his own side) and the Gentlemen of Kent. In 33 first-class matches he scored a total of 193 runs, with a highest score of 19 against Oxford University, at a batting average of 4.02 runs per innings, only reaching double-figures on four occasions in 61 innings. Huntly played for both the Players and the Gentlemen in the annual matches between the two sides, uniquely becoming the only member of