The estate is recorded in 1451 as " Bouchmorale ", and was later tenanted by Alexander Gordon, second son of the 1st Earl of Huntly.

This view was met with ridicule, but was later supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville in their 1848 monograph The Dodo and Its Kindred, which attempted to separate myth from reality.

Alexander Gordon ( 1739 – 1792 ), third son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Lord of Session from 1788 to 1792 under the judicial title of Lord Rockville.

Alexander Gordon ( 1786 – 1815 ), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a soldier and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

She married Sir Alexander Seton ( d. 1438 ) and was the mother of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly ( ancestor of the Marquesses of Huntly ).

* David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1908 – 1974 )

* Alexander George Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( b. 1955 )

Lord Haddo has one son, Ivo Alexander Ninian Gordon, Viscount Formartine ( b. 18 July 2012 ).

* Lady Anne Gordon ( 1675 – 1709 ), married Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton

* Lady Mary Gordon ( 1682 – 1753 ), married Alexander Fraser, 13th Lord Saltoun, 26 October 1707

Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.

* Rupert Davies as Colonel Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

* August 18 – Explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu.

* August 18, 1826 – Explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu.

Important writers on urban design theory include Christopher Alexander, Peter Calthorpe, Gordon Cullen, Andres Duany, Jane Jacobs, Mitchell Joachim, Jan Gehl, Allan B. Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Robert Venturi, William H. Whyte, Bill Hillier, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.

The writings of Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Gordon Cullen and Christopher Alexander became authoritative works for the school of Urban Design.

After this defiance, Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly, was granted Torquil's lands.

Reverting to the crown, the territory came in 1452 to Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly, and still gives the title of " Lord of Badenoch " to the marquess of Huntly.

J. H. Allen, Richard Reader Harris, Lawrence Graeme Allan Roberts, ‎ Edward Faraday Odlum, William Gordon Mackendrick, William Henry Fasken, Charles Marston, Elizabeth Oke Gordon, F. F. Bosworth, Alexander James Ferris, William Bond, Frank Sandford, Samuel Thornton, David Davidson, Errol Manners and Charles Fox Parham.

Although many of these guest appearances would last for only one episode, some led to a permanent role on the show, as in the cases of Gordon Wharmby, Thora Hird, Jean Alexander, Stephen Lewis, Dora Bryan, Keith Clifford, Brian Murphy, Josephine Tewson, June Whitfield, Barbara Young, and Trevor Bannister.

They are Parris Mitchell ( Robert Cummings ), who lives with his grandmother ( Maria Ouspenskaya ); Cassandra Tower ( Betty Field ), daughter of Dr. Alexander Tower ( Claude Rains ); the wealthy orphan Drake McHugh ( Ronald Reagan ); Louise Gordon ( Nancy Coleman ), daughter of the sadistic town physician Dr. Henry Gordon ( Charles Coburn ), who has been known to perform operations without anesthetic ; and the tomboy Randy Monaghan ( Ann Sheridan ), whose father ( Ernest Cossart ) is a railroad worker.

In 1260 Pope Alexander IV made him Bishop of Regensburg, an office from which he resigned after three years.

At the time, he was a deacon and personal secretary of the 19th Bishop of Alexandria, Alexander.

In June 328, at the age of 30, three years after Nicæa and upon the repose of Bishop Alexander, he became archbishop of Alexandria.

It was from St. Alexander of Alexandria, Bishop of Alexandria, 312 – 328, himself an Origenist, that St Athanasius received his main instruction.

Bishop Alexander, so the tale runs, had invited a number of fellow prelates to meet him at breakfast after a great religious function.

" Not long after this ," adds the same authority, Bishop Alexander " invited Athanasius to be his commensal and secretary.

Pope Saint Alexander I was Bishop of Rome from about 106 to 115.

The Bishop of Glasgow, James the Steward, and Sir Alexander Lindsay became sureties for Bruce until he delivered his infant daughter Marjorie as a hostage which he never did, and he was soon actively fighting for the Scots again.

The royal administration under Henry I had been headed by Roger, the Bishop of Salisbury, supported by Roger's nephews, Alexander and Nigel, the Bishops of Lincoln and Ely respectively, and Roger's son, Roger le Poer, who was the Lord Chancellor.

* St. Alexander Sauli ( 1591 – 1592 ), Bishop of Pavia

* May 9 – Alexandria's patriarch Bishop Alexander dies and is succeeded by his deacon Athanasius.

* Alexander becomes Bishop of Byzantium.

* Alexander Hyde, Bishop of Salisbury ( 1665 to 1667 )

A series of disagreements between the Chief Justiciary of Arbroath, Alexander Lindsay, third Earl of Crawford, and Bishop James Kennedy of St Andrews resulted in Lindsay sacking the bishop's lands and burning his properties.

Pope Alexander IV appointed him as Papal legate north of the Carpathians in 1256 and appointed him as the Bishop of Łuków.

c. 1061 or 1062-Letter from Petrus Damiani ( Cardinal Bishop of Ostia ) to the Pope-elect Alexander II and the Archdeacon Hildebrand.

The royal administration under Henry I had been headed by Roger, the Bishop of Salisbury, supported by Roger's nephews, Alexander and Nigel, the Bishops of Lincoln and Ely respectively, and Roger's son, Roger le Poer, who was the Lord Chancellor.

We give thee thanks, heavenly Father, for William Smyth, Bishop, and Richard Sutton, Knight, our Founders ; for Alexander Nowel, Joyce Frankland, Elizabeth Morley, Maurice Platnauer and for our other benefactors, humbly beseeching thee that thou wilt add to their number in goodness.

* Alexander Penrose Forbes, who became Bishop of Brechin, ( EA 1825-32 ).

* Henry Alexander Douglas ( 1821 – 1875 ), Bishop

Theobald attended the council held by Stephen in June 1139 that deprived Roger of Salisbury, Bishop of Salisbury, and his nephews Nigel of Ely, Bishop of Ely, and Alexander of Lincoln, Bishop of Lincoln, of their castles.

He was still involved in decision making and, in 1120, he agreed to King Alexander I of Scotland's suggestion that Eadmer become the next Bishop of St Andrew's.

The authors Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh, the journalist Claud Cockburn, Claudia Cockburn ( wife of actor Michael Flanders ) and author Sarah Caudwell were all descended from Cockburn, as are journalists Laura Flanders, Stephanie Flanders, Alexander Cockburn ( husband of author Emma Tennant ), Andrew Cockburn ( husband of journalist Leslie Cockburn ) and Patrick Cockburn ( son-in-law of Bishop Hugh Montefiore ) and actress Olivia Wilde ( former wife of Tao Ruspoli ).