George Gordon
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George Gordon may refer to:
- George Croughly GordonGeorge Croughly GordonGeorge Croughly Gordon was a Scottish amateur footballer who played for the Scottish XI against England in the first representative match played in March 1870...
(1850–1899), Scottish amateur international footballer - George Henry GordonGeorge Henry GordonGeorge Henry Gordon was an American lawyer and a Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...
(1823–1886), U.S. Army general - George Gordon (botanist)George Gordon (botanist)George Gordon was a British botanist. He worked for the London Horticultural Society as Foreman of the Horticultoral Society Gardens at Chiswick, near London....
(1806–1879), gardener and horticultural writer - George Gordon (1801-1893) (1801–1893), British botanist, geologist and naturalist
- George Gordon (horticulturalist) (1841–1914), British horticulturalist and writer, winner of the Victoria Medal of HonourVictoria Medal of HonourThe Victoria Medal of Honour is awarded to British horticulturists resident in the United Kingdom whom the Royal Horticultural Society Council considers deserving of special honour by the Society...
- George N. GordonGeorge N. GordonGeorge N. Gordon was a Protestant Canadian missionary to the Pacific Islands. Due to the murder of he and his wife, they were considered to be martyrs of modern times by many....
(1822–1861), Protestant missionary to the South Pacific - George Newcombe GordonGeorge Newcombe GordonGeorge Newcombe Gordon, was a Canadian politician.Born in Brighton, Ontario, he was a barrister before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons from the riding of Peterborough West in the 1921 federal election. A Liberal, he was defeated in the 1925 federal election...
(1879–1949), Canadian Member of Parliament and cabinet minister - George Stuart GordonGeorge Stuart GordonGeorge Stuart Gordon was a British literary scholar.Gordon was educated at Glasgow University, Oriel College, Oxford ....
(1881–1942), British academic and Professor of Poetry - George Gordon (Canadian politician)George Gordon (Canadian politician)George Gordon was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1911. He was then appointed to the Senate, where he served until his death in 1942...
(1865–1942), senator from Ontario - George Gordon (Civil War General)George Gordon (Civil War General)George Washington Gordon was a general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he practiced law in Pulaski, Tennessee, where the Ku Klux Klan was formed. He became one of the Klan's first members...
, Civil War General, Ku Klux Klan leader and U.S. Representative from Tennessee - George William GordonGeorge William GordonGeorge William Gordon, National Hero of Jamaica was a Jamaican businessman and politician. On the centenary of his death, he was proclaimed a National Hero of Jamaica. Gordon was the 2nd of 7 children born to a white planter, Joseph Gordon and a mulatto slave, Ann Rattray in April 1815 although...
(1820–1865), Jamaican politician - General Charles George GordonCharles George GordonMajor-General Charles George Gordon, CB , known as "Chinese" Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator....
(1833–1885) - George Gordon (animator)George Gordon (animator)George Gordon was a film and TV animator and director of animated productions. Starting in film in 1930, he moved to TV in its early days. He is credited with hundreds of cartoons spanning the period 1937-1983....
(1906–1986) American animator and director of cartoons for TV - George Gordon (landowner)George Gordon (landowner)George Gordon was a Scottish merchant and wealthy landowner who owned the Gordon's Rock Creek Plantation on land that eventually became part of Washington, D.C. In the 1740s, Gordon built an inspection house for tobacco on the plantation....
, Colonial American landholder in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron ByronGeorge Gordon Byron, 6th Baron ByronGeorge Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS , commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement...
(1788–1824), British Romantic poet more commonly known as Lord Byron
Members of the Scottish Clan Gordon
- George Gordon, 1st Earl of AberdeenGeorge Gordon, 1st Earl of AberdeenGeorge Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen , Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ; by his wife, Mary Forbes.-Education:...
(1637–1720) - George Gordon, 3rd Earl of AberdeenGeorge Gordon, 3rd Earl of AberdeenGeorge Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen , styled Lord Haddo until 1745, was a Scottish peer. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1761, and from 1774 to 1790...
(1722–1801) - George Gordon, Lord HaddoGeorge Gordon, Lord HaddoGeorge Gordon, Lord Haddo was a Scottish Freemason and the eldest son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.On 18 June 1782, Haddo married Charlotte Baird, a sister of Sir David Baird, Bt. and they had seven children:...
(1764–1791), eldest son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen and father of the 4th Earl. - Lord George GordonLord George GordonLord George Gordon was a British politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780....
(1751–1793), Lord George Gordon, eccentric politician - George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- George Hamilton Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen (1816–1864)
- George Hamilton Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen (1841–1870)
- George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairGeorge Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and TemairGeorge Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair OBE , K.StJ , JP , styled Lord Haddo until 1916 and Earl of Haddo from 1916 to 1934, was a Scottish peer and politician....
(1879–1965), 8th Earl of Aberdeen - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 1st Marquess of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in the political and military life of Scotland in the late 16th century and around the time of the Union of the Crowns.-Biography:...
(1562–1636) - George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 2nd Marquess of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly , styled Earl of Enzie from 1599 to 1636, eldest son of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly by Lady Henrietta Stewart, daughter of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, was brought up in England as a Protestant, and later created Viscount Aboyne by Charles I.On...
(died 1649) - George Gordon, 4th Earl of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 4th Earl of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly was a Scottish nobleman.-Biography:He was the son of John Gordon, Lord Gordon, and Margaret Stewart, daughter of James IV. George Gordon inherited his earldom and estates in 1524 at age 10...
(1514–1562) - George Gordon, 5th Earl of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 5th Earl of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly , was Lord Chancellor of Scotland and major conspirator of his time.-Biography:...
(died 1576) - George Gordon (bishop)George Gordon (bishop)George Gordon was a 16th century Scottish prelate. He was the son of Alexander Gordon, Bishop of Galloway, and the brother of John Gordon, also Bishop of Galloway...
(d. 1588), bishop of Galloway - George Gordon, 9th Marquess of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 9th Marquess of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly KT , styled Lord Strathavon until 1795 and known as The Earl of Aboyne from 1795 to 1836, was a Scottish peer....
(1761–1853), styled Lord Strathavon until 1795 and the Earl of Aboyne from 1795 to 1836, Scottish peer - George Gordon of GightGeorge Gordon of GightGeorge Gordon was the maternal grandfather of poet George Gordon Byron and a descendant of King James I of Scotland and of Cardinal Beaton. He was son of Alexander Gordon and Margaret Duff . He married Catherine Innes and had a daughter Catherine...
(1741–1779), maternal grandfather of poet George Gordon Byron - George Gordon, 1st Duke of GordonGeorge Gordon, 1st Duke of GordonGeorge Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon KT, PC , known as Marquess of Huntly from 1661 to 1684, was a Scottish peer....
(1643–1716), styled the Marquess of Huntly from 1661 to 1684, Scottish peer. - George Gordon, 5th Duke of GordonGeorge Gordon, 5th Duke of GordonGeorge Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon GCB, PC , styled Marquess of Huntly until 1827, was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician and the last of his illustrious line.-Early life:...
(1770–1836), styled Marquess of Huntly until 1827, Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician. - George Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron StanmoreGeorge Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron StanmoreGeorge Arthur Maurice Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore PC, KCVO, KJStJ , was a British Liberal politician.Stanmore was the only son of Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, youngest son of Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. His mother was Rachel Emily, daughter of...
(1871–1957), British Liberal politician - George Gordon, 2nd Earl of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 2nd Earl of HuntlyGeorge Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly was Chancellor of Scotland from 1498–1501.Gordon fought on the King's side against the Douglases during The Douglas Rebellion and helped secure a defeat at the Battle of Brechin. The 2nd Earl completed the building work that his father begun in constructing Huntly...
(before 1455 – 1501), Chancellor of Scotland from 1498-1501
See also
- George Hamilton Gordon (disambiguation)