Gordon

( The Rev. Mr. ), chaplain in Cromwell’s troop.—Sir W. Scott, Wood stock (time, Commonwealth). Gordon ( Lord George ), leader of the “No Popery riots” of 1779. Half mad, but really well-intentioned, he countenanced the most revolting deeds, urged on by his secretary, Gashford. Lord George Gordon died in jail, 1793.—C. Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841).