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Days after Gordon's death at a meeting on March 24, 1885, Reverend Edward Stuart, a missionary in Africa, proposed that a Gordon Memorial Mission be built in the Eastern Sudan in honour of Major-General Charles George Gordon, killed by the Ansar at Khartoum in January. Stuart's proposal was met with cheers and overwhelming support by the ...
Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 1 November 1793) was a British nobleman and politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780. An eccentric and flighty personality, he was born into the Scottish nobility and sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [ 6 ]
The 4th Earl was captured at Corrichie with two of his sons, John and Adam Gordon, and died of apoplexy after his capture. John, the elder, was executed three days later. George (called Lord Gordon) was imprisoned at Kinneil House. [2] He was attainted and sentenced to death for treason in 1563.
George was the son of Alexander (Seton) Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly and his second wife Elizabeth Crichton, daughter of William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton. [1] George is first mentioned by name in 1441 when the lands which later became part of the Earldom were settled on him and his heirs. [2]
[a] George Gordon inherited his earldom and estates in 1524 at age 10. As commander of the King's Army he defeated the English at the Battle of Haddon Rig in 1542, was a member of the council of Regency under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran and Cardinal Beaton and succeeded as Chancellor on the murder of Beaton in 1546.
George Gordon Battle Liddy (November 30, 1930 ... New York, for 53 years until her death on February 5, 2010. She was a teacher. [59] The couple had five children: ...
General George Duncan Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, GCB, PC (2 February 1770 – 28 May 1836), styled Marquess of Huntly until 1827, was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician and the last of his line.