GORDON, George. b. Lucan co. Dublin 25 Feb. 1806; learnt gardening under his father 1820; with J. Colvill, King’s road, Chelsea 1827; on staff of Horticultural Soc. Chiswick 18 Feb. 1828, foreman of the arboretum to his decease; A.L.S. 16 Feb. 1841; author with R. Glendenning of The Pinetum, 1858, supplement 1862, 2 ed. 1875, New ed. 1880. d. Kew 11 Oct. 1879; his herbarium purchased by Sir J. Hooker and given to royal gardens, Kew. Gardener’s Chronicle xii, 569 (1879).
GORDON, George Huntly (son of Pryse Lockhart Gordon). educ. for the Scottish church; licensed to preach; transcribed manuscript of Waverley novels for the press in order that the secret of the authorship might not be betrayed; Sir Walter Scott wrote two sermons for him published under title of Religious discourses, By A Layman 1828, preface signed W.S. which Gordon sold for £250; clerk in the treasury, clerk in government stationery office 30 years; contributed much to Notes and Queries. d. Inverness 27 Dec. 1868 aged 72.
GORDON, George Thomas. (2 son of Samuel Gordon, captain R.N.) b. 1807; entered navy 5 March 1818; captain 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 28 Oct. 1864; retired 1 April 1870; admiral 1 Aug. 1877; K.H. 1837. d. Ingleden, Kent 30 July 1887.
GORDON, Henry (brother of Charles Gordon who d. 3 Oct. 1860). Entered navy 18 May 1791; captain 8 April 1805; admiral on h.p. 21 Jany. 1854; mayor of Bath twice. d. Nelson place, Bath 14 Sep. 1855.
GORDON, Sir Henry Percy, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir James W. Gordon 1772–1851). b. 52 Upper Seymour st. London 1806; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., fellow 1830; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 5 May 1831; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1830. d. Blackhall, Aberdeenshire 29 July 1876.
GORDON, Henry William. Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; col. commandant 22 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 19 May 1863. d. Southampton 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79.
GORDON, Sir Henry William (brother of Charles George Gordon 1833–85). b. Blackheath, Kent 18 July 1818; ensign 59 foot Aug. 1835; entered ordnance department 1855; controller general Jany. 1870; commissary general Nov. 1875 to 9 July 1878 when he retired; C.B. 22 Jany. 1857, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of Events in the life of Charles George Gordon 1886. d. Oat hall, Hayward’s heath, Sussex 22 Oct. 1887. Graphic 26 Nov. 1887 pp. 581–82, portrait.
GORDON, Sir James Alexander. (eld. son of Charles Gordon of Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire). b. Kildrummie castle, Aberdeen 1782; entered navy 25 Nov. 1793; captain 16 May 1805; lost a leg at capture of French frigate “La Pomone” at Pelagosa 29 Nov. 1811; governor of royal naval hospital Plymouth 1827–32; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1832–37; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 1 July 1840, governor 17 Oct. 1853 to death; admiral 21 Jany. 1854; admiral of the Fleet 30 Jany. 1868 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1851, G.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Greenwich hospital 8 Jany. 1869. Macmillan’s Mag. xix, 353–54 (1869); I.L.N. liv, 74, 165, 166 (1869), portrait.
GORDON, James Alexander. b. Middlesex; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1814; established The Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery 1819, edited it; L.R.C.P. 16 April 1821, fellow 9 July 1836, Censor 1838; Assist. physician to London hospital 18 July 1827, physician 18 Nov. 1828 to Dec. 1844; retired from practice and lived at Dorking about 1846 to death; F.R.S. 2 April 1835. d. Dorking 18 April 1872 aged 78. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians (1878) iii, 232.
GORDON, Sir James Davidson (son of Evelyn M. Gordon of the Bengal C.S.) Entered Bengal C.S. 1854; private sec. to governor general of India Jany. 1866; resident Mysore and chief comr. of Coorg 1881–83 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881. d. 31 St. James’s st. London 27 June 1889 aged 54. bur. Aston ch. near Knebworth 4 July.