Gordon, Sir Adam de

Died 1333. A Scottish Jan. 30, 1855, his ministry being formed by a coalition of statesman and soldier. He was at first a partizan of Edward II., but after the battle of Bannock burn adhered to Bruce. His son Sir Adam de Gordon (died 1402) became celebrated in border warfare. Gordon, Adam Lindsay. Born at Fayal (Azores), 1833: shot himself at New Brighton, Australia, June 24, 1870. An Australian poet. He was in the mounted police of South Australia in 1853, and was afterward a horse-breaker, member of the Victoria House of A embly (1865), and the keeper of a livery stable. He failed in an attempt to secure the E lemont estate in Scotland in 1869. Among his poems are "Sea Spray and Smoke Drift" (1867), "Bush Ballads, etc." (1870), and "Ashtaroth: a dramatic Lyric" (1870). Gordon, Alexander. Born at Aberdeen before 1693: died in South Carolina in 1754 or 1755. A Scottish antiquary. He wrote "Itinerarium Septen trionale" (1726), describing "the monuments of Roman antiquity" and "the Danish invasions on Scotland." Gordon, Sir Alexander. Born 1650: died at Airds, Kirkeudbrightshire, Nov. 11, 1726. A Scottish Covenanter. He took part in the battle of Both well Bridge, was proclaimed a traitor and condemned to death, and after many hairbreadth escapes fled to Holland. He returned and was arrested (1683), and remained a prisoner until 1689. For several years his imprisonment was voluntarily shared by his wife. Gordon, Andrew. Born at Cofforach, For far shire, June 15, 1712: died Aug. 22, 1751. A Scottish physicist, appointed profe or of phi losophy at Erfurt in 1737. He was noted for his experiments in frictional electricity. He is said to have been the first electrician to use a cylinder in place of a globe. He wrote "Phænomena Electric it at is Exposit a" (1744), etc. Gordon, Sir Arthur Hamilton. Born Nov. 26, 1829. A British colonial governor, youngest son of the fourth Earl of Aberdeen. He sat in Parliament as Liberal member for Beverley 1854-57, and was appointed governor of New Brunswick in 1866, governor of Trinidad in 1870, first governor of the Fiji Islands in 1874, high commi ioner for the Western Pacific in 1877, governor of New Zealand in 1880, and governor of Ceylon Gordon, Charles George, called "Chinese Gordon" and "Gordon Pasha." Born at Woolwich, Jan. 28, 1833: died at Khartum, Nubia, Jan. 26, 1885. An English soldier. He served in the Crimea 1854-56. In 1860 he was attached to the British force under Sir James Hope Grant operating with the French against China, and in 1863 took command of a Chinese force, called the Ever Victorious Army, against the Taiping rebels. He put down the rebellion in thirty-three engagements, and resigned his command in 1864, receiving from the emperor the yellow jacket and peacock's feather of a mandarin of the first cla . He was governor of the Equatorial Provinces of central Africa in the service of the Khedive of Egypt 1874-76; was created pasha by the khedive in 1877; and in the same year was promoted lieutenant-colonel in the British army. He was governor-general of the Sudan, Darfur, the Equatorial Provinces, and the Red Sea littoral 1877-79, in which capacity he stamped out the slave-trade in his district. He acted as adviser of the Chinese government in its relations with Ru ia He was created Baron Stan more in 1893. Whigs and Peelites. He wrote works on Greek architecture, etc. Gordon, John Campbell Hamilton. Born 1847. Seventh Earl of Aberdeen, grandson of the fourth earl, lord lieutenant of Ireland under the Gladstone administration of 1886, and governor-general of Canada from 1893. Gordon, Sir John Watson. Born at Edinburgh, 1788: died there, June 1, 1864. A Scottish portrait-painter. His best-known work is a portrait of Sir Walter Scott. Gordon, Lady Duff- (Lucie or Lucy Austin). Born at Westminster, June 24, 1821: died at Cairo, July 14, 1869. An English writer, best known as a translator from the German (Niebuhr, Von Ranke, and Sybel). She resided in Egypt from 1862. She married Sir Alexander Duff-Gordon in 1840. Gordon, William. Born at Hitch in, Hertfordshire, about 1728: died at Ipswich, England, Oct. 19, 1807. An English clergyman and historian. He wrote "Rise, Progre , and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America" (1788), etc. Gordon Bennett, Mount. [Named from James Gordon Bennett. A mountain in central Africa, in the neighborhood of Lake Albert Nyanza and Ruwenzori, discovered and named by Stanley. Height, estimated, about 15,000 feet. Gordon Cumming. See Cumming. Gordon Riots. A rising of the London populace, June, 1780, the culmination of an anti Roman Catholic agitation, instigated and abetted by Lord George Gordon. See Gordon, Lord George. Gore (gor), Mrs. (Catherine Grace Frances Moody). Born at East Retford, Notts, England, in 1799: died at Lyndhurst, Hampshire, Jan. 29, 1861. An English novelist and play writer. Among her works are "The res a Marchmont," a novel (1824), "The Lettre de Cachet" (1827), "School for Coquettes," a comedy (1831), "Mrs. Armytage, etc.," a novel (1836), "Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb" (her most succe ful novel, 1841), "The Banker's Wife" (1843), and about sixty other works, some of them translations from the French. Gore, Christopher. Born at Boston, Sept. 21, 1758: died at Waltham, Ma ., March 1, 1827. An American politician, governor of Ma achusetts 1809-10. He was a benefactor of Harvard College. Gorée (gō-rā'). A small island belonging to France, situated near the coast of Sene gambia, south of Cape Verd, in lat. 14° 40′ N., long. 17° 25′ W. Population of the town of Gorée, about 2,000. Gore Hall. 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