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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 .
Blenheim – Birthplace of National Hero – The Rt. Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante; ... The Monument to Rt. Excellencies George William Gordon and Paul Bogle, ...
George William Gordon (1820–1865), Jamaican politician George A. Gordon (1885–1959), American attorney and diplomat George Anderson Gordon (1830–1872), American politician from Georgia
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
George W. Gordon can refer to: 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
George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street in London; [1] his birthplace is now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store John Lewis. [13] [14] His family in the English Midlands can be traced back without interruption to Ralph de Buran who arrived in England with William the Conqueror in the 11th century. [15]
In 1969, Bustamante became a Member of the Order of National Hero (ONH) in recognition of his achievements, [22] this along with Norman Manley, the black liberationist Marcus Garvey, and two leaders of the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, Paul Bogle and George William Gordon.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa.