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of the Gironde in April, 1814, he officiated as Flag-Lieutenant until the receipt of his second promotal commission bearing date 20 July, 1815. With the exception of a three years’ command in the Ordinary at Sheerness, which he held from 28 April, 1827, until 1830, he remained on half-pay till 31 Dec. 1846; since which period he has been in command of the Ocean 80, guard-ship at Sheerness. Agents – Holmes and Folkard.
GORDON. (Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 1846. f-p., 14; h-p., 39.)
James Murray Gordon, born 6 March, 1782, is son of the late Thos. Gordon, Esq.; and brother of the late Lieut.-Colonel Thos. Wm. Gordon, of the Fusileer Guards.
This officer entered the Navy, 25 June, 1794, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Brittania 100, Capt. John Holloway, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Admiral Wm. Hotham, in whose ensuing action of 13 July with the French fleet we believe he was a participator. After serving for rather more than five years as Midshipman, on the same, and on the Home and East India stations, in the Tarlton, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, and Virginie, Capts. Anth. Hunt and Geo. Astle, Mr. Gordon became Acting-Lieutenant, 18 July, 1800, of the Vulcan bomb, Capts. Jeremiah Skelton, Peter Heywood, and Chas. Jas. Johnston, also stationed in the East Indies; where he removed in a similar capacity to the Trincomalee 13, and Dédaigneuse frigate, both commanded by Capt. Heywood; to which latter vessel he was confirmed by commission dated 25 Feb. 1803. He assumed the acting-command, on 26 May, 1805, of the Albatross sloop, and, being officially appointed to that vessel 1 Feb. 1806, continued to serve in her in the East until 28 Feb. 1807. He then returned to England, but was soon again ordered to India in the Procris 18, of which vessel he assumed command on 19 of the following Oct. As a Post-Captain, a rank he attained 15 Feb. 1808, Capt. Gordon was further employed on that station, in the Terpsichore frigate, from 28 April in the same year, until 28 July, 1809. We do not find that he has since held any appointment. His promotion to Flag-rank took place 9 Nov. 1846.
Rear-Admiral Gordon married, 10 Dec. 1810, Sarah Almeria, daughter of Archdeacon Caulfeild, and relict of Capt. Charlton, E.I.Co.’s Service. By that lady, who died 21 Dec. 1821, he had issue two sons and two daughters. The second son, James, Lieutenant in the 92nd Highlanders, died in 1841. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
GORDON. (Captain, 1818. f-p., 12; h-p., 30.)
The Honourable John Gordon is youngest brother of Rear-Admiral Hon. Wm. Gordon, R.N., M.P. This officer entered the Navy, 15 April, 1805, as L.M., on board the Medusa 38, Capt. Sir John Gore, with whom, after accompanying the late Marquess Cornwallis to India, and returning home with the remains of that distinguished nobleman, he removed, as Midshipman, in Feb. 1806, to the Revenge 74, and furtner served for a period of two years and nine months in the Channel and off Cadiz, lie then successively joined the Ardent 64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon, Conqueror 74, Capt. Edw. Fellowes, Peacock 38, Capt. Wm. Peake, Nymphe 36, Capts. Hon. Josceline Percy and Edw. Sneyd Clay, and Aquilon 32, Capt. Wm. Bowles, all employed on the Home station, where, in the Nymphe, he was wrecked, at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, 18 Dec. 1810. Being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 21 March, 1812, Mr. Gordon’s appointments in that capacity, we find, were, to the Révolutionnaire and Seahorse frigates, commanded on the Western Island and North American stations by Capts. John Chos. Woollcombe and Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon; the latter of which ships he left a few days subsequently to his advancement to the rank of Commander 15 June, 1814. After a ten months’ command of the Carnation 18, on the Newfoundland station, Capt. Gordon was there appointed, on 20 Nov. 1818, Acting-Captain of the Tamar 26. He was confirmed in Post-rank 31 Dec. following, but does not appear to have been invested with any further employment until appointed, 22 Feb. 1844, to the America 50. He resigned the command of that ship, after having intermediately served in her on the Pacific and Mediterranean stations, for the purpose of accepting the Retirement, 1 Oct. 1846. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
GORDON. (Captain, 1837. f-p., 12; h-p., 25.)
Robert Gordon, born 7 Sept. 1796, is third son of the late David Gordon, Esq., of Abergeldie, co. Aberdeen (a direct descendant of Alexander Lord Gordon, who was created Earl of Huntly in 1449), by Anne, third daughter of Michael Biddulph, Esq., of Ledbury, co. Hereford; and next brother of Michael Fras. Gordon, Esq., now of Abergeldie, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 May, 1810, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Phoebe of 44 guns and 271 men, Capt. Jas. Hillyar; in which frigate, subsequently to the reduction of the Isle of France, he contributed, 20 May, 1811 (while cruizing off Madagascar in company with the Astrea and Galatea, frigates nearly equal in force to the Phoebe, and 18-gun brig Racehorse), to the capture – after a long and trying action with the French 40-gun frigates Rénommée, Clorinde and Néréide, and a loss to the Phoebe of 7 men killed and 24 wounded – of the Rénommée. On 25 of the same month he was further present at the surrender of the Néréide, and of the settlement of Tamatave; and in the following summer he co-operated in the conquest of the island of Java. Removing, as Midshipman, in Jan. 1813, to the Centaur 74, Capt. John Chambers White, Mr. Gordon cruized in that ship on the North Sea and Channel stations, until again transferred, in Jan. 1814, to the Tonnant 80, bearing the successive flags, on the North American and Cork stations, of Sir Alex. Cochrane and Sir Benj. Hallowell, under the former of whom he took part in many operations against the American enemy, and was present in the attack upon New Orleans. He left the Tonnant in July, 1816, for the purpose of joining the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, who, investing him soon with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, enabled him to share in that capacity in the ensuing bombardment of Algiers. He was accordingly awarded an Admiralty commission dated 16 of the following Sept.; but he did not again go afloat until 6 Sept. 1819. He then obtained an appointment to the Iphigenia frigate, Capt. Hyde Parker, on the Jamaica station, where he next joined, 3 June, 1820, the Ontario 18, Capt. Whitworth Lloyd, and where, on 13 of the following month, he assumed the acting-command of the Confiance 18. The latter sloop, to which he appears to have been confirmed 3 Oct. 1820, Capt. Gordon paid off 28 Sept. 1821. His subsequent appointments were – 20 Nov. 1830, for a period of two months, to the Herald yacht, lying at Portsmouth – and, 22 Nov. 1831, to the Pearl 20, on the West India station, which vessel was put out of commission 20 Dec. 1834. Capt. Gordon, who has not since been employed, attained Post-rank 10 Jan. 1837. He is one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House.
GORDON, M.P. (Rear-Admiral of the Blue 1846. f-p., 18; h-p., 32.)
The Honourable William Gordon is second son of George Lord Haddo (who died in Oct. 1791) by Charlotte, youngest daughter of Wm. Baird, Esq., of Newbyth; and next brother of the Earl of Aberdeen, late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He is brother, also, of Capt. Hon. John Gordon, R.N.; as likewise of Sir Alex. Gordon K.C.B., an officer of rank in the Army, and Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Wellington, who was killed at Waterloo – of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Chas. Gordon,
