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  2. George W. Joy - Wikipedia

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    Joy was the son of William Bruce Joy, MD, and the brother of sculptor Albert Bruce-Joy, descendants of an old Huguenot family which settled in Antrim in 1612. [2] General Gordon's Last Stand. Joy's portrayal of Gordon's death. He was initially destined for the military and was also an accomplished violin player.

  3. Siege of Khartoum - Wikipedia

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    The British soldier Major-General Charles George Gordon, a former Governor-General of Sudan (1876–1879), was re-appointed to that post, with orders to conduct the evacuation. [ 3 ] Gordon's views on Sudan were radically different from Gladstone's: Gordon felt that the Mahdi's rebellion had to be defeated before it gained control of the whole ...

  4. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...

  5. George William Gordon - Wikipedia

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    George William Gordon (c. 1820 – 23 October 1865) [1] was a Jamaican businessman, magistrate and politician, one of two representatives to the Assembly from St. Thomas-in-the-East parish. He was a leading critic of the colonial government and the policies of Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre .

  6. George Joy - Wikipedia

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    George Joy may refer to: George Joy (colonial administrator), British colonial administrator; George W. Joy, Irish painter; George Joye, also Joy, Bible translator

  7. George Gordon (Ontario politician) - Wikipedia

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    George Thomas Gordon (August 13, 1888 - February 22, 1971) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1948 to 1967 who represented the riding of Brantford .

  8. George Anderson Gordon - Wikipedia

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    George Anderson Gordon (September 26, 1830 – October 5, 1872) was an American politician.. Gordon was born in Savannah, Ga., Sept. 26th, 1830.He entered the Sophomore Class at Yale College in Sept., 1846, and after graduation in 1849 remained for a year, engaged in the study of law, in the Law Department.

  9. George W. Gordon - Wikipedia

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    George W. Gordon can refer to: George William Gordon (c. 1820–65), Jamaican businessman, magistrate and politician George Washington Gordon (1836–1911), American Civil War general, politician, and Ku Klux Klan member