George Grant Gordon
Colonel George Grant Gordon, .
Career
Gordon was born in 1836, the son of Lieut.-Col. Lord Francis Arthur Gordon (1808–1857), youngest son of the 9th Marquess of Huntly, by his wife Isabel Grant (d. 1892), daughter of General Sir William Keir Grant.
He joined the British Army, where he was commissioned an officer in the
3rd (Edinburgh Light Infantry Militia) Battalion, Royal Scots, based at Glencorse Barracks, Midlothian, and on 7 March 1900 was appointed to the honorary colonelcy of the battalion.[2]
He served as Justice of the peace (JP) for the County of London and for Berkshire.
Gordon was Equerry and Controller of the Household to the
Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB), civil division, in 1891, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1897.[3]
Family
Gordon married, in 1863, Constance Augusta Lennox Peel, daughter of
Member of Parliament Laurence Peel (son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet), by his wife Lady Jane Lennox, daughter of the 4th Duke of Richmond. She died in 1921. They had three children:[4]
- Brigadier-General Laurence George Frank Gordon, CB, DSO (1864–1943), of the Royal Artillery
- Christian Frederick Gordon (1866–1934)
- Helena Jane Gordon (1870–1932), who married Rev. William Henry Stone (d.1920)
References
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1901
- ^ "No. 27171". The London Gazette. 6 March 1900. p. 1531.
- ^ Whitaker′s peerage, 1905
- ^ "Person Page". thepeerage.com.