Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of, Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, Viscount of Formartine, Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves, and Kellie
He looks so handsome in the portrait by
Sir Tomas Lawrence (1828)
Perhaps you might say pretty to the eye.
From early on he had a lovely fate,
A peerage coming to him in his teens
And even more important, William Pitt
The Younger and a viscount with the means
To boost him to the top. He was unfit
For highest office, though. Indecision
Held peace at bay. He had to go to war.
Crimean generals brought derision
Down on Aberdeen. Fate can be a whore
At age of 72. He had to quit
Because the generals’ advice was shit.