A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Gordon, John

GORDON, John, the son of an eminent watchmaker of the same names, was born in the parish of St. Martin, Ludgate, March 26, 1702. He was admitted a foundation scholar at Westminster, and elected thence to Cambridge, where he became pensioner of Trinity College June 18, 1720. In 1721 he obtained a scholarship in the same college. He left Cambridge June 1, 22, and returned to London to study law, in view of which he had on Nov. 9, 18, entered as a student at Gray's Inn. On Jan. 16, 23, he was elected Professor of Music in Gresham College, which place had become vacant by the death of Dr. Edward Shippen. On Feb. 10, 25, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, but continued to hold his professorship till his death, Dec. 12, 1739.

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