“When our fathers pluck’d the blackberry
And sipp’d the silver tide.”
An etching of the eccentric individual, from whence the present [engraving] is taken, was transmitted by a respectable “Cantab,” for insertion in the Every-Day Book, with the few particulars ensuing:—
James Gordon was once a respectable solicitor in Cambridge, till “love and liquor”
“Robb’d him of that which once enriched him,
And made him poor indeed!”
He is well known to many resident and non-resident sons of alma mater, as a déclamateur, and for ready wit and repartee, which few can equal. One or two instances may somewhat depict
Jemmy Gordon.
Jemmy Gordon.
Gordon meeting a gentleman in the streets of Cambridge who had recently received the honour of knighthood, Jemmy approached him, and looking him full in the face, exclaimed,