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George William Gordon (c. 1820 – 23 October 1865) [1] was a Jamaican businessman, magistrate and politician, one of two representatives to the Assembly from St. Thomas-in-the-East parish. He was a leading critic of the colonial government and the policies of Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre .
Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 ... (1787), a satirical print by William Dent. Gordon associated only with pious Jews; in his passionate enthusiasm for his new ...
Lord William Gordon (1744–1823) Lady Anne Gordon (16 Mar 1748 – 7 Jun 1816) Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), after whom the Gordon Riots were named; Lady Susan Gordon (c. 1752 – 1814), married first John, Earl of Westmorland, and second, Colonel John Woodford, having issue from both marriages; Lady Catherine Gordon (26 Jan 1751 – 3 Jan ...
Both George William Gordon and Paul Bogle are mentioned in Horace Andy's "Our Jamaican National Heroes", while Ruddy Thomas' "Grandfather Bogle" is a Bogle tribute. Bogle and the Morant Bay rebellion are pivotal plot points in Zadie Smith's 2023 novel “The Fraud.”
William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen (1679–1746), Scottish peer, Tory politician and Jacobite William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure (c. 1672–1716), Scottish Jacobite William Gordon, Lord Strathnaver (1683–1720), MP for Tain Burghs, judged ineligible to sit because he was the eldest son of a Scottish peer
Gordon House (or George William Gordon House) is the meeting place of the Jamaica Parliament, located at 81 Duke Street in Kingston, close to the old parliament building headquarters. The house serves as the meeting place of both the Senate and the House of Representatives since independence on August 6, 1962 [ 1 ]
George William Gordon (c. 1820–65), Jamaican businessman, magistrate and politician George Washington Gordon (1836–1911), American Civil War general, politician, and Ku Klux Klan member Topics referred to by the same term
They had four children: William George Conway Gordon, Francis Ingram Conway-Gordon, Lewis Conway-Gordon and Charles Van Renen Conway-Gordon. William Gordon was promoted lieutenant in 1851 in the 91st to lieutenant, then captain in 1854. He married Jane Miller Dickson (September 18, 1824 - January 27, 1876) in 1857, and died the following year.