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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 .
Roger Mais, best known for his 1954 Rastafarian novel Brother Man, wrote the play George William Gordon, about the mixed-race politician [2] who was tried under martial law and executed following the Rebellion, the play was first staged in 1938. V. S. Reid devoted his novel New Day (1949) to commemorating the rebellion.
The Statue of Queen Victoria (St. William Grant Park) The Statue of Father Joseph Dupont (SWGP) The Statue of Hon. Edward Jordan (SWGP) The Statue of Sir Charles Metcalfe (SWGP) The Statue of Rt. Excellent Alexander Bustamante (SWGP) Forts and naval and military monuments. Fort Charles, Port Royal; Historic sites. Liberty Hall, 76 King Street
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.”
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 ]
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 ...
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 William Gordon (1820–1865), Jamaican politician George A. Gordon (1885–1959), American attorney and diplomat George Anderson Gordon (1830–1872), American politician from Georgia