GORDON, Sir James Willoughby, 1 Baronet (brother of Charles Gordon, who d. 3 Oct. 1860). b. 21 Oct. 1772; ensign 66 foot 17 Oct. 1783; lieut. col. royal African corps 13 June 1808, col. 25 July 1810 to 27 Nov. 1815; Q.M.G. in the Peninsula 1811–12; Q.M.G. at head quarters 1812 to death; col. of 85 foot 27 Nov. 1815, of 23 foot 23 April 1823 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; created baronet 5 Dec. 1818; G.C.H. 1825; G.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831; F.R.S. 11 June 1801. d. his residence near royal hospital, Chelsea 24 Jany. 1851.
GORDON, John (brother of 4 Earl of Aberdeen 1784–1860). b. 1792; captain R.N. 31 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 23 March 1863. d. 28 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 11 Nov. 1869.
GORDON, Sir John (son of Samuel Gordon of Clonmel, co. Tipperary). b. Clonmel 1798; general medical practitioner at Cork 1820 to death; mayor of Cork 1855; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland 1855. d. Cork 29 Jany. 1871.
GORDON, John Shepheard. Publisher of The Record more than 50 years. d. 1 Albert road, Crouch hill near London 31 Oct. 1884 aged 76.
GORDON, Sir John Watson- (eld. son of James Watson, captain R.A.) b. Edinburgh 1788; leading portrait painter in Scotland 1823 to death; exhibited 123 portraits at R.A. London 1827–64; assumed name of Watson-Gordon by which he is always known; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851; pres. of R.S.A. March 1850 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; limner to the Queen for Scotland 1850 to death. d. Catherine bank house, Edinburgh 1 June 1864, the Watson-Gordon professorship of fine art instituted in Univ. of Edin. 1879. Sandby’s Royal Academy ii, 287–9 (1862); Redgrave’s Century of Painters ii, 76–8 (1866); I.L.N. xviii, 219 (1851), portrait.
GORDON, Sir John William (elder son of Thomas Gordon of Harperfield, Lanarkshire who d. 1832). b. 1814; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Dec. 1833; commanded R.E. in Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. R.E. 1856–66; A.D.C. to the Queen 1855–66; D.A.G. at head quarters 1856–61; M.G. 3 Aug. 1866; inspector general of R.E. 1 June 1869 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1857; cut his throat at house of lieut. col. Hutchinson, Golfston, Westward Ho. Devon 8 Feb. 1870; full length portrait in head-quarter messroom of R.E. at Chatham. Chesney’s Essays in modern military biography (1874) 154–62. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi, 241–5 (1871); I.L.N. lvi, 211 (1870).
GORDON, Joseph. b. 1836; borough surveyor of Carlisle; designed many plans for draining large towns in North of England and Scotland; designed and carried out sewerage of Frankfort-on-Main 1886 and of other foreign cities; surveyor of Leicester 1880 where he greatly reduced the death rate; engineer to London county council 9 July 1889 to death; A.I.C.E. 1862; M.I.C.E. 1874. d. in an omnibus outside Eyre Arms tavern St. John’s Wood, London 9 Nov. 1889. bur. Leicester cemetery 13 Nov.
GORDON, Lady Lucy Duff- (only child of John Austin 1790–1859). b. Queen sq. Westminster 24 June 1821; left Unitarian ch. for ch. of England 1837. (m. 16 May 1840 Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon, bart. 1811–72); intimate with Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot Warburton and others; visited Heinrich Heine in Paris 1854; lived in Egypt 1862 to decease; translated many works from German and French; author of Letters from the Cape in Galton’s Vacation Tourist 1862–63, pp. 119–222; Letters from Egypt 1865. d. Cairo 14 July 1869. Lady Duff-Gordon’s Last letters from Egypt with a memoir by her daughter Mrs. Ross (1875) i-xl, portrait; Macmillan’s Mag. Sep. 1869 pp. 457–62; Good Words (1875) pp. 637–40.
GORDON, Rev. Osborne (2 son of George Gordon of Broseley, Salop). b. Broseley 21 April 1813; educ. Bridgnorth sch. and Christ Church, Oxford; double first class in classics and mathematics; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847; rhetoric reader to university 1845 and Greek reader 1846; proctor 1846–47; censor Christ Church 1846; university examiner 1848–52; select preacher 1849 and 1862; member hebdomadal council 1854, 1857; Prince of Wales became his pupil at Christ Church 1859; member of Oxford univ. commission 1877; R. of Easthampstead, Berks. 1860 to death; author of Eusebii Pamphili historiæ ecclesiasticæ Annotationes variorum 1842; Considerations on improvement of examination statute 1847. d. Easthampstead 25 May 1883. G. Marshall’s Osborne Gordon (1885) pp. 1–72, with portrait.
GORDON, Rev. Robert. b. Glencairn, Dumfriesshire 5 May 1786; educ. Edin. univ. to 1809 and at Marischal coll. Aberdeen D.D. 1823; presbyterian minister at Kinfauns, Perthshire 1816, at St. Cuthbert’s chapel of ease, Edin. 1821, at Hope park chapel of ease 1824, at New North ch. 1825, at the High ch. 1830; moderator of general assembly 20 May 1841; joined Free ch. and was minister of Free High ch. Edin. 1843 to death; invented a self registering hygrometer; author of articles Euclid, geography and meteorology in Edinburgh Encyclopædia; wrote Sermons 1825; Christ as made known to the Ancient Church 4 vols. 1854–55. d. 14 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 21 Oct. 1853. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) pp. 309–316; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) p. 19–21, portrait.