GORDON, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1734/5; left 1738. [Perhaps Thomas Gordon, son of Thomas Gordon, Hornsey, Middlesex, adm. Middle Temple 24 Apr 1740, called to bar 24 Oct 1746]
GORDON, WILLIAM JAMES; b. 16 Nov 1808; adm. 2 Jul 1822; left Christmas 1824; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Jan 1828, then of 10 Fludyer Street, Westminster; d. at Penzance, Cornwall. [Evidently brother or close kin of JOHN GORDON, adm. same day].
GORDON, WILLIAM, son of Rev. William Gordon, Hastings, Sussex, and Ann Lubman; bapt. 28 Oct 1788; adm. 1 Jul 1800 (Clapham); KS (aged 14) 1803; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1808, adm. pens. 28 May 1808, scholar 1809, matr. Mich. 1808; BA 1812; MA 1815; ordained; Minor Canon, Lichfield; Vicar of Christ Church, West Bromwich, Staffs., 18 Apr 1829-49; m. 24 Jun 1816 Louisa, sister of Sir John Jervis (qv); d. 30 Oct 1857.
GORDON, WILLIAM, brother of Charles Gordon (in school list 1801, qv); b. 30 Sep 1792; adm. 20 Oct 1806; left 1810; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Dec 1813; BA 1817; d. 8 Jan 1879.
GORDON-LENNOX, CHARLES HENRY, 6th DUKE OF RICHMOND AND LENNOX, and 1st DUKE OF GORDON, eldest son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 27 Feb 1818 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); styled Earl of March 1819-60; adm. 6 May 1830; Ch. Ch. Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1836; BA 1839; DCL 1870; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 24 May 1839; Lieut., 27 Sep 1842; Capt. on half-pay 27 Sep 1844; MP (Cons) West Sussex 1841 – 21 Oct 1860; President, Poor Law Board Mar – Jun 1859; Privy Councillor 3 Mar 1859; succ. father as 6th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 21 Oct 1860; KG 6 Feb 1867; President, Board of Trade 8 Mar 1867 – Dec 1868; Leader of Conservative Peers in House of Lords 1870-6; Lord President of the Council 21 Feb 1874 – Apr 1880; created Duke of Gordon 13 Jan 1876; President, Board of Trade 24 Jun – Aug 1885; Secretary of State for Scotland 17 Aug 1885 – Feb 1886; a recoognised authority on agricultural affairs, serving as Chairman, Royal Commission on Agriculture 1879; DL Banffshire 1846, Lord Lieut. from 25 Aug 1879; DL Aberdeenshire 1864; LLD Cambridge 1894; LLD Aberdeen 1895; Busby Trustee from 21 May 1867; m. 28 Nov 1843 Frances Harriet, eldest dau. of Algernon Frederick Greville, Bath King of Arms and private secretary to Duke of Wellington; d. 27 Sep 1903. DNB.
GORDON-LENNOX, CHARLES, 5th DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDON, eldest son of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lennox KG PC, Lord Lieut. Ireland and Governor-General of Canada, Gen. in the Army, and Lady Charlotte Gordon, eldest dau. of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon KT; grandson of Lord George Henry Lennox (qv); b. 3 Aug 1791; styled Earl of March 1806-19; adm. (Glover); left 1809; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. nob. 28 Oct 1809; BA 1813; Ensign, 8th Garrison Battalion 8 Jun 1809; Lieut., 13th Light Dragoons 21 Jun 1810; Capt., 92nd Foot 9 Jul 1812; 52nd Foot 8 Apr 1813; Brevet Maj., 15 Jun 1815; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 25 Jul 1816; half-pay 25 Jul 1816; ADC and Assistant Military Secretary to Duke of Wellington in Peninsular War 1810-4; wounded at Orthes; ADC to Prince of Orange at battle of Waterloo; MP Chichester 1812 – 28 Aug 1819; succ. father as 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 28 Aug 1819; as MP and peer a supporter of Tory governments to 1828, but opposed Catholic Emancipation and went into opposition after the passage of the Catholic Emancipation Bill in 1829; KG 13 May 1829; offered and accepted Cabinet office in the incoming Whig government Nov 1830; Postmaster-General Nov 1830 – May 1834; Privy Councillor 22 Nov 1830; resigned office over Whig government’s Irish Church policy May 1834, moving to cross-benches in House of Lords; inherited Scottish estates of his cousin 5th Duke of Gordon 1836, assuming additional surname of Gordon before Lennox, 9 Aug 1836; became a vocal advocate of agricultural protection in the 1840s, strongly opposing Sir Robert Peel’s repeal of the corn laws; Col., Sussex Militia, from 4 Dec 1819; Extra ADC to William IV 9 May 1832; Lord Lieut. of Sussex from 19 Jun 1835; Chancellor, Marischall College, Aberdeen, from 1836; FRS 2 Apr 1840; President, Royal Agricultural Society, from 1845; DL Banffshire 1846; Steward, Jockey Club 1831; horses of his won the Oaks 1827, 1845, and the One Thousand Guineas 1845; Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons, Sussex, from 1823; several details of his school life, including his fight with an overgrown bully, will be found in a Memoir of him published in 1862; Busby Trustee from 19 May 1827; m. 10 Apr 1817 Lady Caroline Paget, eldest dau. of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (qv); d. 21 Oct 1860. DNB.
GORDON-LENNOX, LORD FITZROY GEORGE CHARLES, second son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 11 Jun 1820; adm. 14 Feb 1834 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Ensign, 43rd Foot 15 Sep 1837; Lieut., 11 Sep 1840; 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 16 Feb 1841; 13th Light Dragoons 16 Feb 1841; lost in SS President on his passage home from from New York, USA 13 Mar 1841.
GORDON-LENNOX, LORD HENRY CHARLES GEORGE, third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 2 Nov 1821; adm. 1 Jun 1836 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1840; BA 1843; MA 1847; precis writer, Foreign Office Feb 1845 – Feb 1846; MP (Cons) Chichester Feb 1846 – 85; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Mar – Dec 1852, Mar 1858 – Mar 1859; Secretary to the Admiralty Jul 1866 – Dec 1868; First Commissioner of Works Feb 1874 – Jul 1876, when he was compelled to resign owing to involvement in a financial scandal; Privy Councillor 7 Jul 1874; m. 25 Jan 1883 Amelia Susannah, widow of Richard Archibald Brooman, Neville House, Twickenham, Middlesex, and subsequently of John White, Arddarroch, Dumbartonshire, chemical manufacturer, and dau. of --- Smith; d. 28 Aug 1886. DNB.
GORDON-SHORT, CHARLES HENRY, eldest son of Mayow Short (adm. 1809, qv), and his second wife; b. 16 Apr 1848; adm. 30 May 1861; QS 1863; left Whitsun 1865; Ensign, 104th Foot 1 Aug 1868; Lieut., 28 Oct 1871; Capt., 27 Jul 1879; Maj., Munster Fusiliers 29 Aug 1883; South Staffs. Regt. 4 Oct 1884; assumed additional surname of Gordon 18 Jun 1878; m. 16 Apr 1873 Sophia Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Edward Kent Parson MD, Southsea, Hampshire; d. 26 Jan 1885.
GORE, ---; b.; adm. 23 Jun 1659; a boarder; at school 1659-64 (Busby’s Account Book).