Robert Gordon (MP)
Robert Gordon (1786–1864) was a British landowner and politician.
Life
He was the only son of William Gordon, a West Indies planter, of Auchendolly in Kirkcudbrightshire, and his wife Anna Nash, daughter of Stephen Nash of Bristol, and was educated at Eton College from 1799 to 1803. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1803, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1804, graduating B.A. in 1808 and M.A. in 1824.[1][2][3]
Gordon succeeded his father in 1802, inheriting the West Indies plantation, and estates in Sherborne, Dorset and Cricklade, Wiltshire.[4] He was a cornet (1805) and lieutenant (1808) in the Dorset yeomanry and a captain in the Wiltshire yeomanry (1816).[2]
Appointed
Gordon died in 1864.
Family
Gordon married his cousin Elizabeth Anne, the daughter of Charles Westley Coxe of Kemble House, Gloucestershire.[2]
References
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b c "Gordon, Robert (1786-1864), of Leweston House, nr. Sherborne, Dorset and Ashton Keynes, nr. Cricklade, Wilts". History of Parliament. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
- ^ "Summary of Individual William Gordon of Auchendolly ????-1802 Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk.
- ^ "Summary of Individual Robert Gordon MP 1st Jan 1786 - 16th May 1864 Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk.