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Encyclopedia > George Gordon

George Gordon may refer to:

or even George Henry Gordon (1823-86) was an American soldier. ... The Right Honourable George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (1637-1720), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, son of Sir John Gordon, 1st baronet of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, executed by the Presbyterians in 1644, was born on the 3rd of October 1637. ... Sir George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen (19 June 1722 – 13 August 1801) was the son of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen. ... Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 - 12 November 1793), third and youngest son of Cosmo George, duke of Gordon, was an eccentric politician. ... George Gordon (1806-1879) was a British botanist. ... George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (January 28, 1784 - December 14, 1860) was a Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855. ... In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ... The Most Honourable George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair OBE KStJ JP (January 20, 1879–January 6, 1965) was a British peer. ... George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (1562 - June 13, 1636), was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in politics at the time of the union with England. ... George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly (d. ... The chair of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford is an unusual, high-profile academic appointment, now normally held for five years. ... George Gordon (May 2, 1865-February 3, 1942) was a Canadian politician. ... George W. Gordon was an officer in the Confederate Army, rising to be the youngest brigadier general in the confederacy by the last year of the war. ...

See also Earl of Aberdeen. Chinese Gordon as Governor of Sudan Charles George Gordon, C.B. (January 28, 1833 - January 26, 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. ... Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ... Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair is a title in the Scottish peerage. ...

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Charles George Gordon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2346 words)
In 1872 Gordon was sent to inspect the British military cemeteries in the Crimea, and when passing through Constantinople he made the acquaintance of the prime minister of Egypt, who opened negotiations for Gordon to serve under the khedive.
Gordon urged that the road from Suakin to Berber should be opened, but this request was refused by the government in London, and in April Graham and his forces were withdrawn and Gordon and the Sudan were abandoned.
Gordon's memory (as well as his work in supervising the town's riverside fortifications) is commemorated in Gravesend: the embankment of the Riverside Leisure Area is known as the Gordon Promenade, while Khartoum Place lies just to the south.
Charles George Gordon (1833-1885): A Brief Biography (1862 words)
Gordon derived great comfort from his family over the years, he was especially fond of his sister Emily, her death, at 16 when Gordon was 10, was a great blow to him.
Gordon never allied himself to any church, or became a member of one; he was friends with the Presbyterian chaplain, the Church of England vicars in the area, the Methodist and Baptist pastors and the Catholic priest.
Gordon was replaced in 1879, in 1880 he was appointed as the Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India.
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