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George William Gordon (c. 1820 – 23 October 1865) [1] was a Jamaican cornman, potaxian 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 .
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.
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.
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]
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 ]
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
William Gordon Welchman OBE (15 June 1906 – 8 October 1985) was an English mathematician. During World War II, he worked at Britain's secret decryption centre at Bletchley Park, where he was one of the most important contributors. In 1948, after the war, he moved to the US and later worked on the design of military communications systems. [1]
National Heroes Park (formerly King George VI Memorial Park) is a botanical garden in Kingston, Jamaica. The largest open space in Kingston at 50 acres in size, [ 1 ] National Heroes Park features numerous monuments; it is the burial site of many of Jamaica's National Heroes , Prime Ministers and cultural leaders.