Catherine Gordon

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Catherine Gordon

Scottish heiress

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…Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, a Scots heiress. After her husband had squandered most of her fortune, Catherine Byron took her infant son to Aberdeen, Scotland, where they lived in lodgings on a meager income; the captain died in France in 1791.
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…Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, a Scots heiress. After her husband had squandered most of her fortune, Catherine Byron took her infant son to Aberdeen, Scotland, where they lived in lodgings on a meager income; the captain died in France in 1791.
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