The Gordon DNA Project: www.TheGordonDNAproject.com THE HOUSE OF GORDON, Gordons Under Arms III 4-5 Copies printed. GEORGE, 5TH AND LAST DUKE OF GORDON Painted by Sir Henry Raeburn, R^. unfcer 2lrms A BIOGRAPHICAL MUSTER ROLL OF OFFICERS NAMED GORDON IN THE NAVIES AND ARMIES OF BRITAIN, EUROPE, AMERICA AND IN THE JACOBITE RISINGS BY CONSTANCE OLIVER SKELTON AND JOHN MALCOLM BULLOCH ABERDEEN $prdon of Ha irietta, Gordon, Ihead 1 I William, officer George, Lord Haddo, officer Alexander, John, of Ellon, of Cairnbulg, officer officer 13 "J tficers 4 officers 7 officers 6 officers 38 officers 19 officers The (94) Officers (of the name of Gordon) descended from the 2nd Earl of Aberdeen. One of these officers raised the Sist Regiment, and another, the nth Duke of Gordon, raised four regi- ments of his own and two companies for other regiments. George Gordon, of Hallhead, Jacobite : fought at Culloden Robert Gordon, of Hallhead b, 1712 : d. 1793 William (Gordon), 2nd Earl of Aberdeen Had 37 male descendants in Services = Lady Henrietta Gordon m. 1760 : d. 1814 1 George, Militia \ William, R.E. \ Robert, William, George, R.N. Adam Durnford, Thomas Rowley, Robert Cumming Hamilton, listPt Black Watch Charles Napier R.N. H.K.r.d ,S H K 1 C. nc.th Ft. Anne = Henry Perkins Wolrige \ Robert Gordon Walter Gordon Adai Gordon-Gilmour, Wolrige- Gordon Grenadier Guards Black Watch John Gordon Henry Gordon Wolrige-Gordon, Wolrige-Gordon, Argyll and Cameron Sutherland! Highlanders Robert Wolrige-Gordon Grenadier Guards n Lindsay, George William Hamilton Poet Hamilton, Elrington, Thomas, RE K N HE I.C.S. 1 1 1 Edward Hyde William Hamilton, Alexander, Gordons Worcester Reg. The 19 Officers of the Hallhead Gordons. xxxvi HOUSE OF GORDON. Opportunity and patronage similarly gave an impulse to soldiering in other Gordon countries. It was marked in Sutherland, though there it is somewhat obscured by the fact that the Earls of Sutherland had abandoned the name of Gordon before the great recruiting impetus of the eighteenth century began. A very remarkable instance is afforded by Adam Gordon (1750-1831), tacksman at Griamachary, Kildonan, for no fewer than fifteen of his male descendants have been officers, includ- ing the well-known "gemini generals," Sir John James Hood and Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. Their fame endures, but not one stone of their old home probably a mere " but and ben " in Griamachary is now standing on the other. It is not possible in the space at one's disposal to go into all the families producing officers, but the following are some striking cases of male descendants in the British Services, though the totals could be increased by including service under other flags and as Jacobites : Haddo William, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen (d, 1745) had . . -94 Croiighly James, farmer (d. 1812) had 28 Hallhead Robert, the laird (d. 1793) had 19 Cairnfield Robert, of Lunan (b. 1655) had 17 Newton James, Portsoy (d. 1745) had . . . . .16 Abcrgtldie Charles, the laird (d. 1796) had . . . . .15 Griamachary Adam, tacksman (d. 1831) had . . . .15 Ward/tome James, of Beldorney (alive 1746) had . . .11 Kenmure John, " 8th " Viscount (d. 1769) had . . . .10 Clonmcl Thomas, of Spring-garden (d. 1805) had ... 9 Embo Sir John, 5th bart. (d. 1779) had 8 Culvennan William (d. 1757) had ...... 7 There are other groups distinctly military though not so easily classed as these families. For instance, the Gordons of Park are represented throughout the book by 14 fighting members : the Gordon-Cummings by 12, the Gordon-Lennox family by u, and the Conway-Gordons by the same number. That the fighting spirit was widely diffused among men bearing the name of Gordon, and did not rely on the power of the Dukes to give it expression, is seen in the number of officers produced by the Gordons of Spring-garden, Clonmel, who were founded by a tanner, and who were brilliantly represented in Major-General Edward Charles Acheson Gordon, R.E. There were several other Irish families, grouped here for the first time, although none of them can be traced back THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER. XXXvii to any line in Scotland. One would specially like to know something more about Anthony Gordon of the Invalids, whose Treatise on the Science of Defence for the Sword, Bayonet and Pike in Close Action is described by Captain Hutton as " the earliest known work giving any idea of at- tack and defence with the bayonet ". In view of the large number of unidentified officers in the list, it is obvious that the grouping of Gordons in families is far from complete : but Mrs. Skelton has the satisfaction of knowing that she has traced several men to their family stock. This, indeed, has been a constant encouragement in a task that has presented some appallingly dull stretches of stodgy laboriousness. One of these happy occasions occurs in the case of a certain Robert Gordon, who distinguished himself in India. At an early part of the inquiry, he emerged from the pages of Robert Orme, at the attack on Wandiwash, 1759, the capture of Vellore 1760, and of Pondicherry, 1760-1 ; and one's heart warmed to the glimmer of a Scots origin in the story told by Philippart when Gordon, as the conqueror of Thana in 1774, exclaimed : " Maister [Ensign] Nugent tells me he could dance a minuet in the breach ". But neither Orme nor Philippart carried him further back than as a Captain of the 84th Regiment in 1758, neither of them suggested an origin, and Mr. G. W. Forrest's Bombay State Papers served to corroborate them only in detail. Then one day, a stray reference in Smiles's life of John Murray, the founder of the famous publishers of Albemarle Street, served to show that Gordon could be traced back to the Scots Brigade in Holland, that he raised an Independent Company for the II. E.I. C. in 1747, a d that he had been the subject of a fierce public controversy in the London newspapers of 1774, when a shameful attempt was made by the East India Company sometimes anything but honourable to supersede him. This led to an examination of the (MS.) ledgers of Mr. John Murray, which settled all doubts. The result was that we now know, by inference, that he was an illegitimate son of Sir Robert Gordon, of Gordonstown. These discoveries enabled the present writer to develop the career of Robert Gordon, which had begun practically at zero, into a story of 22,440 words, published in the Huntly Express and Banffshire Advertiser, the merest summary of the facts being set forth in the present work. The instance gives one the opportunity of saying that many of Mrs. Skelton's discoveries have been printed at full length XXxvill HOUSE OF GORDON. and elaborated (in country newspapers) by the Editor of the House of Gordon in pursuance of the policy foreshadowed by him in that work ten years ago, of getting one's genealogical material out of the precarious manuscript stage. The whereabouts of these elaborations are invari- ably stated in the list of authorities appended to every biography, but unfortunately the average reader will not be able to go to these sources, for not a single library in Scotland professes to file more than one or two of these journals, invaluable as they are as chronicles of the countryside in all its activities. Even with these subsidiary channels of information, much remains to be told that was alien to the spirit of the present work : and a writer with the skill of a Burton could add many companion volumes to the Scot Abroad. For instance, there is the story of William Gordon his origin has escaped detection who went on a Mission in 1739 to Shahu Raja, the Maratha King of Satara, being asked to supply " eight guinea- hens, two pairs of turkeys, some Bussora pigeons, a little mummy, and a kind of curious birds ". Again there is the grim story of the massacre of Patna, 1763, where, as a little paragraph in the Aberdeen Journal of June 25, 1764, reminded its readers, Lieut. John Gordon, " son to Mr. Gordon, of Dundurcus," had fallen, in the previous October, a victim to the treachery of the dastardly Swiss " Sombre ". Romance, of course, does not belong exclusively to yesterday : Confound Romance ! . . . And all unseen Romance brought up the nine-fifteen. Only the other month the issue of the ponderous history (it weighs 40 Ib.) of the Rajkumar College, at Rajkot, Kathiawar, recalled the story of Harry Lawrence Gordon (1867-92), who began his career in the Durham Light Infantry and then entered the Bombay Staff Corps. A band of daring dacoits had infested the province for fourteen months. Young Gordon, with some native men of the Agency Police, went out one day against the marauders, twelve in number, and rounded them up in their stronghold. He completely routed them, but fell with nine bullets in his body. " We cannot all be Gordons," said Sir Charles Olli- vant, the Political Agent, in addressing the students at the College : " but what I ask you to consider is, how it is that in all these months of outlawry there has not been found in any of the States which most THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER. XXXIX suffered by it some young Rajput to lead his men with something like Gordon's gallantry and determination." If there has been romance in the careers of many Gordon officers, there has also been romance in the discovery of it, producing an exhilara- tion familiar to every student, but more or less incommunicable to the ordinary reader. One of the moments is worth recalling, for it possesses a literary as well as military value. All students of Carlyliana are familiar with the story of Margaret Gordon, supposed to have been the Seer's first love. Northern gossips had told and retold the story over and over again, but not one of them ever discovered what Gordon she was. One day, as Mrs. Skelton was immersed in her own work, Mr. Ray C. Archibald, a young Professor of Mathematics in a Ladies' College in Canada, discovered that the father of the girl was a Dr. Alexander Gordon, an army surgeon. He followed this by a voyage across the Atlantic, ran up and down the country in a few weeks, and enlisted Mrs. Skelton's interest and help. It was really a terrible task, a look- ing for a needle in a haystack ; and involved among other things a search through seventeen unindexed War Office letter-books. But Mrs. Skelton had the ultimate satisfaction of running the mysterious surgeon to earth among the Gordons of Logic, while Mr. Archibald himself dis- covered everything else that was worth discovering, the result being an elaborate book of 230 pages, issued from the Bodley Head. The elements of many another romance will be found scattered through the pages of GORDONS UNDER ARMS, but Mrs. Skelton, with an unfaltering perception of the true function of the New Spalding Club, has denied herself the pleasure of exploiting the purple patches for the more prosaic task of providing the warp and woof of hard fact. The ideal she has pursued is the answer to the questions Who is to use this book ? How shall I help them quickly and efficiently ? Every officer has been given an entry number, and referred to his father if in the Services, or to a brother or some kinsman who was. Thus Alex- ander Dunlop Gordon, 224, of the Croughly family, is described as the son of William Alexander, 1474, but not as the brother of James John, $07, George Huntly,582, William Robert, 1511, and Rowland Hill, 1281, who were all in the Army. It is only on referring to William Alex- ander, 1474, the father of them all, that you learn those officers were brothers. This plan has been adopted to save space, for with every xl HOUSE OF GORDON. desire to help the searcher, one has avoided the irrational helpfulness which leaves him nothing whatever to do for himself. The cross- references in the text are largely supplemented by the additional identi- fications supplied by the elaborate index, which is an inventory rather than a mere conventional index, and includes the relatives of the officers (who are of course arranged alphabetically in the text). No one with the slightest experience of research can fail to under- stand the enormous amount of work involved in the construction of the careers of individual officers from varied and often contradictory data : and how it has been accentuated by the elaborate network of cross- references with which the book is equipped. These give us, as nothing else could do, a consciousness of the contribution by one great family alone to the task of extending our Dominions, a task that was pursued inarticulately by these officers themselves. I have said that the Gordons have been poor historians, but as a matter of fact, the fighting which they helped to put in from the middle of the eighteenth century was little understood by the country at large. There was no Seeley to define Ex- pansion, there was no political doctrine of " Empire". Politicians and soldiers alike were nearly as much puzzled as little Wilhelmine and old Caspar on the field of Blenheim. Therefore the moss-grown memorials of such men as the Croughly Gordons in the quiet kirkyard of Kirk- michael, and the mere collection of dates which constitute the bio- graphies of hundreds of officers in this book are symbolical of the quiet, laborious processes which have made us what we are. In retrospect and in the bulk it may all be "frightfully thrilling," as Hilda Wangel would say, but the individual biography is often as dull as the individual sections of an elaborate pattern, and as unconscious of its purpose in the great design of which it is a part. The consciousness of this gives a political as well as genealogical interest to this book, and has sustained the makers of it. Its making too was possible only in the Capital most indebted to the services of sailor and soldier, for GORDONS UNDER ARMS could not possibly have been done except by a student resident, at least for long stretches at a time, in London, where the main data alone are available. Even then, it coulfl not have been done in the same space except by a student of leisure and immense enthusiasm. To have had to pay searchers' fees would have made the publication, expensive as it now is, quite impossible: THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER. xli so that the debt due by the Club to Mrs. Skelton is a very heavy one regarded from every point of view. THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE. The List of Gordons in the Services of Europe entirely compiled by the Editor of The House of Gordon, includes 219 officers and men, of whom ninety-four are quite unidentified, and of whom sixteen also figure in the Home Services and two in the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745. They are apportioned as follows : Holland 68 Denmark 6 France 64 Flanders i Germany 19 Portugal i Russia 17 Greece i Sweden 13 Naples i Poland 9 Papal Zouaves i Spain 7 Palestine i This muster roll, however, cannot be considered complete, for, ex- cept in the case of France and Holland, we have no regular registers to fall back upon. In lieu of these we have the odds and ends of history written by Scotsmen themselves, notably Sir Robert Gordon's Earldom of Sutherland, but such books record only the men who were worth recording. Among the main sources of information are the following : FRANCE. The Scots Men-at-Arms and Life Guards in France, from their formation until their final dissolution, MCCCCXVIII-MDCCCXXX. By William Forbes-Leith, S.J. : with etched plates by Major H. de Grandmaison. Edinburgh, William Paterson, 1882 : 410 ; vol. i. pp. xiv, 195 ; vol. ii. pp. 232. HOLLAND. Papers illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the Netherlands, 1572-1782, extracted by permission from the Government Archives at the Hague, and edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy]. Edinburgh, Scottish History Society, 1899 ; 3 vols., 8vo. [The information here has been supplemented by several letters from Prof. Kramer, " Director of H.M.'s Private Archives."] DENMARK and SWEDEN. Monro, His Expedition, with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called MacKeyes Regiment), levied in August, 1626, by Sr. Donald MacKey, Lord Rhees [sic], Colonell for his majesties service of Denmark, and reduced after the battaile of Nerling to one Company in 1634 at Wormes, in the Paltz : collected and gathered together at spare- houres by Colonell Robert Monro, at first Lievetennant under the said Regiment to the Noble and Worthy Capitaine, Thomas MacKenyee of Kildon, brother to the noble Lord, the Lord Earle of Seafort ; for the use of all Worthie Cavaliers favouring the laudable profession of arms. London, printed by William Jones in Red-Crosse Streete, 1637. [A tantalisingly " throughither " production.] xlii HOUSE OF GORDON. An Old Scots Brigade, being the history of Mackay's Regiment now incorporated with the Royal Scots, with an appendix containing copies of many original documents connected with the history of the regiment. By John Mackay (late) of Herriesdale. Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1885. RUSSIA. Tagebuch des Generals Patrick Gordon, wahrend seiner Kriegsdienste unter den Schweden und Polen vom Jahre 1655 bis 1661, und seines Aufenthaltes in Ruszland vom Jahre 1661 bis 1699, zum ersten Male vollstandig veroffentlicht ; durch Fiirst M. A. Obolenski und Dr.phil. M. C. Posselt. [3 vols.] Moskau, Gedruckt in der Universitats-Buchdruckerei, 1849: St. Petersburg, in Commission bei K. F. Kohler in Leipzig, 1851, 1852. Pcmsages from the Diary of Patrick Gordon of Auclileuchries, A.D. I635-A.D. 1699 [edited by Joseph Robertson] ; Aberdeen, Spalding Club, 1859. [This is an abridgment, in the original text, of the Tagebuch, which contains a great deal of supplementary information about other Gordons in Ruasia not reproduced in the Diary.] The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, to which is prefixed a short history of the country from the rise of that monarchy, and an account of the author's life. By Alexander Gordon, of Achintoul, Esq., several years a Major-general in the Czar's service; Aberdeen, printed by and for F. Douglass and W. Murray. 1755 : 2 vols., 8vo. GENERAL. Scottish Soldiers of Fortune, their adventures and achievements in the Armies of Europe. By James Grant; illustrated by F. A. Fraser. London, Routledge, 1889, pp. 331. [An interesting, but badly arranged and indexless, book, in which few authorities are cited.] The type of officer serving under a foreign flag has always fascin- ated Scotsmen themselves. Thus Sir Thomas Urquhart in his Jewel of 1652 is proud to recount (Maitland Club ed., p. 214) : Several [Scots] have for their fidelity, valor and gallantry been exceedingly renowned all over France, Spain, the Venetian Territories, Pole, Muscovy, the Low-countreyes, Swedland, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, and the other States and Kingdoms. He acquired immortality in the person of Dugald Dalgetty, who had been educated at Marischal College, while Stevenson in Prince Otto sketches the type in Herr Oberst Gordon " well grounded at Aber- deen " of the Grunewald Army. Despite the popularity of this type of adventurous Scot, his genesis and the genius of the corps which he entered have not been explained by Burton or Grant as they deserve. The class from which the men came was in most cases the better-to-do, and Town as well as Country contributed its quota. That merchandise and militarism should run hand in hand is easily understood, for it was the Town which did the trade with the Continent and which owned the ships available for all passenger traffic. When the laird wanted to go abroad he had to go to the merchant and be content with a cargo boat. For both classes England long remained a closed door; even if her portals had been flung wide open, it was much more easy to sail across the sea than to THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER. xliii travel by road across the Border. The character of the foreign corps also differed. The Scots Men-at-Arms in France and the Scots Brigade in Holland were almost the only permanent organisations approximating the ideal of our Standing Army: in most other countries the Scots trooped in only on special warlike occasions. The Scots Men-at-Arms in France were the most aristocratic, and attracted the land-owning and Catholic gentry. The Brigade in Holland appealed, on the other hand, to the merchant class, who had long been bound up with trade in the Netherlands, and it attracted Protestants. But beyond that, religious ideals played little part in the 'listing of these Scots, when the possibilities of war came in sight. Protestants like John Gordon, of the Gight family, who was so closely associated with the assassination of Wallenstein in 1634, entered the service of the Empire to fight for Catholicism, and Catholics took up arms for the Protestant Gustavus. As an example of the complete indifference as to which flag was to be served, one may cite the early experiences of General Patrick Gordon, of Auchleuchries : (1) 1655, Feb., entered the Swedish Army. (2) 1656, Jan., captured by the Poles, and entered their service in May. (3) T 656, Jul., captured by the Swedes. (4) 1657, Jan., recaptured by the Poles, and then captured by the Imperial troops. (5) 1658, Ensign in the Swedish service, and soon after captured by the Poles, whose service he re-entered. (6) 1660, Jun., fought against the Russians at Czudno. (7) 1660, arranged to enter the service of the Holy Roman Empire. (8) 1660, Sept., entered the Russian army, in which he served till his death in 1699. The reasons for Scots entering foreign armies were varied. In the first part of the seventeenth century the demands of Sweden and of France for men were responsible for many levies, the year 1642 witness- ing warrants for raising 6000 soldiers for France alone. Then the Covenanting struggle in Scotland resulted in many men going abroad for safety's sake, as in the case of Adam, son of Sir Adam Gordon, of Park, who, on hearing of Lord Huntly's death, "transports himself into Germany," and of Patrick, the notorious " Steelhand," who closed a fierce anti-Covenanting campaign by entering the service of Poland. Sometimes it was a private quarrel, as when John Gordon, bullied and wounded by his brother, Alexander, the laird of Birsemoir, " wes forsit to leave the kingdom and go in service with Capitan Hepburne to France ". xliv HOUSE OF GORDON. Russia was the last of the foreign countries to employ Scotsmen on a large scale. Peter the Great's remarkable determination to be- come a force by engaging the best soldiers and sailors led to his inviting Patrick Gordon, of Auchleuchries, to join him ; and the laird's success was so great that he soon had a number of his countrymen applying for posts. In the following century the Jacobite rebellion proved the Czar's opportunity, especially in regard to the fleet, for officers with pro-Stuart tendencies were cast adrift in this country. It was in this way that Russia acquired the services of Thomas Gordon, who had apparently begun his career as a North Sea trader, and having entered the Scots Navy by way of privateering, was taken over by the English Navy at the time of the Union, meantime doing everything in his power to help the Jacobites, until he was forced to give up his com- mand, and enter the service of the Czar who made him Governor of Kronstadt. Although he did not actually fight in the Fifteen, he may be said to have served four masters in turn Scotland, Great Britain, the Jacobites, and Russia. No other man in this book appears in more than two of the lists : that is why Thomas's career has been detailed at such length. Jacobitism gave two other officers to Russia. There was " Sandie " Gordon, a younger son of the laird of Glenbucket, who was killed on the Black Sea, while fighting the Turks in 1740 ; if he be- haved " honorablie at his death," wrote his father, who was also to die an exile on a foreign shore, "it would be a great satisfactione for me to know ". William, the son of the Jacobite laird of Cobairdy, also took post in the Russian Navy. Half a century later, the struggle of Greece attracted Thomas Gordon, of Buthlaw, who learned his Homer at Eton and Oxford and his soldiering in the Scots Greys ; curiously enough there is no evidence that he ever met Lord Byron, who had narrowly escaped being his fellow-laird at Gight. One wonders how these old Scots got on in point of language. French of course was easy, for many of the youths who entered the Scots Men-at-Arms had been educated at Catholic seminaries in France. One can understand their getting along in Dutch, for merchandise had made it a lingua franca. But how did they manage in Polish and in Russian ? The question is peculiarly interesting in view of the fierce struggle in Hungary a few years ago when Austria introduced the Ger- man wordjof command, the Magyars insisting that their race could not THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER. xlv understand it, and the Croats, Ruthenians, and other sections of the Composite Monarchy maintaining that the substitution of Magyar would not help them. We know for certain that the i: ibil ;< -y of Admiral Thomas Gordon to speak Russian was the cause of triction between him and the Dane, Sievers ; he certainly spoke Dutch, but that cannot have carried him very far in Muscovy. Some of the Scots had, however, been so long abroad that they had practically become foreigners ; such an one was the John Gordon, a fellow-prisoner of the laird of Auchleuchries, who describes him " ein volliger Deutscher". In some cases these soldiers settled permanently abroad, and founded military families. The best -known example comes from Poland, where Lady Catherine Gordon and Lord Henry Gordon, twin children of the 2nd Marquis of Huntly, were taken when young, and acquired a firm footing through the marriage of Lady Catherine with Count Andreas Morsztyn, the Grand Treasurer of Poland. To this day there is a Marquis Huntly Gordon in Warsaw, who claims descent from Lord Henry. The descent is not quite clear at its start, but there is undoubtedly a closely related group of military Gordons who came out of Poland : John James Gordon, " Marquis of Huntly," said to be Lord Henry's grandson, Col., Polish Army : alive 1694 Peter Gordon Judge at Czerniechow Joseph Felix, Karol, 1742-1811, d. s.p. 1820, Saxon Army Polish Army Ferdinand Heinrich Joseph von Gordon, Saxon Life Guards : d. 1846 Franz von, d. 1871, Saxon Light Horse I Oscar Ivan, d. 1909, Austrian Army Felix, 1859-75! Cadet I Rudolf, b. 1863, Hesse Army Franciszek, d. 1826, General, Poland Karol, b. 1818 Franciszek, Marquis of Huntly I Oscar, b. 1873, German Navy xlvi HOUSE OF GORDON. A second foreign group, still more clearly defined, is descended from the Gordons of Coldwells, through a younger son who went to Poland as a merchant, as a birth brieve of June 27, 1718, now possessed by his family at Laskowitz, and corroborated by a copy in the Aberdeen Pro- pinquity Register, serves to prove. The family is now represented by Dr. Franz von Gordon-Coldwells, whose grandfather Adolf, with two brothers Franz and Edmond, were all in the Prussian Army. The best- known family settled abroad is that of the Gordons of Wardhouse, who have been long connected with Spain, although they are also intimately connected with their native Aberdeenshire, where they still own Wardhouse. The entry of the Scot into foreign armies came gradually to an end with the discovery of our Dominions beyond the Seas, and the foreigner's coincident growth of ability to do for himself what we and others had largely done for him. Except for Gordons who had practically become foreigners, we find a complete stoppage of foreign service ; al- though the vitality of the Gordons is so great that in one case a Spanish Gordon, Jose Maria 'of the Wardhouse family, has lived to enter our own service as commander of the forces in the Commonwealth of Australia. The case is unique, for between 1840, when the laird of Buthlaw left Greece, and the present time, I know of only one Gordon who took service on the Continent, namely, the Rev. Charles Menzies Gordon, who raised men for the Papal Zouaves in 1867. The London Weekly Despatch re- ported (May i, 1904), on the authority of the " Conscript Department of the Russian Ministry of War," that among the " 150 distinctively British names among the Czar's non-commissioned soldiers," appeared that of" Gordon, of Aberdeen"; but all efforts to verify the statement have completely failed. One would have included him in the Foreign Legion, for so many Gordons of good family entered the ranks of foreign armies that the rule adopted in the British list of excluding everybody beneath the rank of a warrant officer has been waived. It will be noted that the details in the Foreign List are fuller than in the case of the Home Services, for the simple reason that many of them have been found in places unlikely to be searched by the genealogical student, and several are the result of correspondence carried on for several years before this work was contemplated. One must wait patiently for the full examination of the more minute historical THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER. xlvii records of various countries before one can hope to make this particular section anything like complete. IN AMERICA. The Gordons, officers and men, who have followed the flag on the American Continent number 218 ; of whom one, George, took part in the filibustering raid on a Brazilian province in 1907 ; one, George Tomline, figures in another of the lists, namely, that of the British Services ; and only sixty are identified as to origin. This list is most deeply indebted to Mr. Armistead Churchill Gordon, Staunton, Virginia, who knows more about the Gordon family in America than any other genealogist. Mr. Gordon belongs to the Gordons of Middlesex, Virginia, founded by John Gordon, the third son of James Gordon, II. of Sheepbridge, County Down, who, probably, belonged to the Gordons of Salterhill, Drainie, Morayshire, through the Rev. James Gordon, minister of Comber, Co. Down. In pursuit of his ancestors, Mr. Gordon had elaborate searches made in Ireland, which have given us fuller details of the Irish Gordon families than we have ever got from anyone else. On his own behalf he has compiled pedigrees of the following Gordon families in Virginia Lancaster, Middlesex and Richmond (his own branch), Blandford, Spottsylvania, Falmouth and Fredericksburg, and Alexandria. Six years ago he made a list of Gordons who had fought in the American Colonies and in the United States, and this has been supplemented from his Virginian genealogies, of which the present writer has a typewritten copy. Further information was received in 1908 from Mr. Daniel Smith Gordon, 65 West g3rd Street, New York, claiming descent from Alexander Gordon, a Scot, who went to America in 1734, settling in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and dying before 1750. Additional facts have been drawn from the follow- ing records : List of Officers in the Army of the United Stales from 1779 to 1900 ; embracing a register of all appointments by the President of the United States in the Volunteer Service during the Civil War, and of the Volunteer officers in the Service of the United States, June I, 1900. Compiled from the official records by Colonel William H. Powell, U.S. Army. New York, Hamersley & Co., 1900. List of Officers of the Navy oj the United States and of the Marine Corps from 1775 to 1900 ; comprising a complete register of all present and former commissioned, warranted, and g ' xlviii HOUSE OF GORDON. appointed officers of the United States Navy and of the Marine Corps, regular and volunteer. Compiled by Edward W. Callaghan, Registrar, Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department. New York, L. R. Hamersley & Co., 1901. All this material, together with the information contained in the various editions of Who's Who in America, has been arranged by Mrs. Skelton on the pattern of her own work. The list is anything but complete. Even Virginia, which has been ransacked as no other state has been, has gaps, for Mr. Gordon has excluded the Virginia "County Colonists" of the time of the Colony, and also officers in the Militia in times of peace, concen- trating on those who actually bore arms in war. Again the concluding volumes of John M. Moore's Roster of North Carolina Troops in the Civil War (which is out of print) have not been searched ; and the absence in this country of most of those books of infinitesimal historical re- search, of which the Americans are past masters, must account for many other gaps. As it is, we get the following figures from the 218 men mentioned : Confederate army 67 North American (and U.S.) army 82 Revolution 54 U.S. Navy 15 The list naturally adds little to our knowledge of the origins of the American Gordons on this side of the Atlantic, which is the great stumbling-block of genealogy in America except for a few families. The initial difficulty occurs not so much in America as in Ireland, from which so many families emigrated. Scarcely one family of Gordons in Ireland can trace to any well-known stock, the case of the Sheep- bridge Gordons, who have given the student so much trouble, being typical. It is curious that the Scots origins of George Tomline Gordon the only man who figures in the Home Army as well as in the American (Confederate) service are also unknown. Of the two other Scots Gordons who have been in the American service in our own day, William Augustus, Missouri Infantry, belonged to the Cairnfield and Rosieburn group, and the Rev. George Angier came from Insch. There can be no doubt, however, which is the largest family of Military Gordons in America. The honour belongs to the Gordons of Middlesex, who produced this group of soldiers : THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER. xlix Alexander Gordon of Salterhill, Drainie, Morayshire Rev. James Gordon, Minister of Comber, Co. Down 1 ? James Gordon, I. of Sheepbridge, Co. Down James Gordon, II. of Sheepbridge (will proved, 1753) Col. James (d. 1768), founded Lancaster Gordons, 1928 1 1 John, founder of Middlesex and Richmond Gordons 1 James, Nathaniel, John, 1929 1763-1820 1765-1842 1 II I John Newton, James Harrison, 1793-1870 1946 j John Willison, JJames, 1971 1826-95 Smith Waddell, | | 2002 John Newton, 1968 Arch. Madison, Rev. Edward Clifford, 1863 1889 James Willison, 1947a Joseph Calvit, 1975 Elizabeth = James, Churchill, m. 1777 1759-99 Navy, 1881 William Fitzhugh, John Harrison, General, 2041 d. 1863 INN ill William Fitzhugh, jr. Albert Spark, 2042 1839 George Loyall, Churchill Grasty, 1910 1882 Charles Henry, John Gaskins, 1878 1966 John Churchill, 1964 Alexander Tarewell, 1852 Mason, 1983 The Lancaster and Middlesex family of Virginian Gordons, showing 20 Fighting Men. The most distinguished individual officer is General John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), the dignified Confederate leader, who was wounded no fewer than eight times during the war, and whose book of reminis- cences stands head and shoulders above the average military auto- biography either in America or in our own country. He belonged to a notable military group of Confederate officers, the Gordons of Spottsyl- vania, Virginia, and claimed descent from John George Gordon, who emigrated from Scotland to Maryland in 1724 and therefrom to Spottsyl- vania County. The fact that a grandson was named James Byron Gordon is responsible for the suggestion that the family was connected with the Gordons of Gight, but no proof is forthcoming. The Spottsylvania Gordons produced the following soldiers : HOUSE OK GORDON. John George Gordon, Scot, emigrated 1724 ; in Spottsylvania, Virginia George, Charles, North Carolina, North Carolina Nathaniel, Chapman, M.P. (N.C.) 1819-28 1873 James Byron, Zachariah, Brig. Gen. 1941 Georgia John Brown, Augustus Manly, Eugene Cornelius, Walter Scott, Zachariah Chapman, Gen. 1962 1866 1890 2021 2051 I Hugh Haralson, 1920 I Hugh Haralson, 1921 The soldier kinsmen of General John Brown Gordon. These genealogies are due to the untiring energy of Mr. Armistead Gordon, but it is not merely owing to the accident of his enthusiasm that they can be constructed. Virginia, with its influx of old families, was peculiarly suited to breed an aristocratic soldier caste, whereas the north, with a far more migratory and mixed population, naturally de- feats the process and defies the genealogist. It will be noted that in this American list all ranks have been in- cluded, for the private soldier of the Confederacy was as often as not of birth as gentle as his officer. " I know an instance," writes Mr. Armi- stead Gordon, "where of a mess of five privates and non-commissioned officers in winter quarters in 1862-3, three were engaged by way of recrea- tion in reading in the original Greek the plays of Euripides and Sopho- cles, and the other two in studying the differential calculus." JACOBITES IN 1715 AND 1745. The list of Jacobites shows that 103 Gordons entered the field for the old Chevalier in 1715 and for Prince Charlie in 1745, only two men one of them being the redoubtable John Gordon of Glenbucket taking part in the two risings. The list, which has been compiled THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER. li by the present writer, has been made up from a variety of sources. The most elaborate of these is : A List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion, transmitted to the Commissioners of Excise by the several supervisors in Scotland, in obedience to a general letter of the 7th May, 1746, and a supplementary list with evidences to prove the same : with a preface by the Earl of Rosebery and annotations by the Rev. Walter Macleod. Edinburgh, Scottish History Society, 1890. [It should be explained that this date 7th May, 1746, has been adopted as the date of the whereabouts of the men involved, for we do not know when every return was actually made.] A large mass of valuable and little-known information was discovered at the Record Office by Mrs. Skelton, and additional facts have been found in a variety of sources, as detailed in the authorities quoted. The Jacobite risings afforded the last big opportunity for the Highlanders in general and the Gordons in particular to exhibit the old individualisms which had made the-art of governing them so difficult, and the warlike feelings they aroused afterwards proved of immense value to professional soldiering, especially as regards officers. The pusillanimous attitude of the ist and 2nd Dukes of Gordon, impressed on posterity by some scathing ballads, has tended to convey the impression that the Gordons did not readily rise to rebellion. The ennobled families certainly did not make the same move. The ist Duke and his son, Lord Huntly, were never quite able to make up their minds how to act ; the Earl of Aboyne was a minor : the Earl of Aberdeen took no action : the Viscount of Kenmure rose, and lost his head on Tower Green in consequence ; while the Earl of Sutherland, who had already begun to withdraw from the ducal influence, made the family feud wider than ever by opposing the Jacobites vigorously and levelling his forces against the Duke. But many of the lairds threw themselves into the struggle quite recklessly, largely, I think, at the instigation of John Gordon, of Glenbucket, who was plainly disgusted with the luke- warmness of the Duke to whom he acted as factor. Families stampeded in closely related groups an aspect of Jacobitism which has never been sufficiently investigated. For instance, Moir of Stoneywood and his brother Moir of Lonmay, who were both excepted from the Pardon of 1747, were respectively the brothers-in-law of Fullerton of Dudwick and Byres of Tonley, who were similarly excepted, while Lonmay's son-in-law, Cumming of Pittulie, met a similar fate. Another related group, consisting of Thomson of Faichfield, Ogilvie of Auchiries, Forbes of Pitsligo, and Irvine of Drum, were all in the same boat in the Forty- Hi HOUSE OF GORDON. Five ; and a Gordon case of the same kind is illustrated by the lairds of Avochie and of Logic, as follows : John Gordon of Avochie, James Gordon, of Ardmeallie, alive 1672 d. 1723 I ? I II Patrick, Harry , of Avochie, Peter, Alexander, in Binhall Rebel, "15 of Ardmeallie of Logle I I Charles, Alexander, John, of Avochie = Mary Robert, of Logic Rebel, '45 Rebel, '45 Excepted, 1747 Gordon Excepted, 1747 Of 103 Gordons who rose, 24 took part in the Fifteen and 79 in the Forty-Five. This figure makes eight more than are cited in Lord Rosebery's List, which gives the following figures out of a total of 780 : Stewart . . . 104 Fraser . . .52 Mackenzie . . 32 Gordon ... 71 Ross . . .41 Macpherson . . ig Macdonald . . 60 Robertson . . 41 Farquharson . . 25 Grant ... 57 Cameron . . 33 Forbes . . .11 Out of the 85 men excepted by the Act of Pardon of 1747 (20 Geo. II., cap. 52), there were seven Gordons more than appertained to any other surname. Taken in districts, the 103 Gordons in this section of the present work are arranged as follows : Banff . . -43 Edinburgh . . 4 Fife . . . I Aberdeen . . 28 Forfar . . .3 Galloway . . i Elgin . . .10 Cromarty . . i Perth . . i Of unknown origin II. The effect of the rebellions on professional soldiering was, as I have said, most marked, and that is why the Jacobite Muster-roll finds an appropriate place in the present work. Not only did the rebellions set the old warlike spirit coursing through the veins of many who had al- most forgotten how to fight, but the subsequent attitude of expiation gave a great fillip to the Services. Take the case of Kenmure. The 6th Vis- count lost his head in 1716 : his second son William, who but for the attainder which that sentence carried with it, would have been 8th Vis- count, sought to right his house and himself by sending every one of his five sons into the Army of the Chevalier's successful rival. His foresight THE MAKING OF THE MUSTER. liii was justified, for the title was restored to his second son John in 1824, only to expire (1847) in the latter's nephew Adam, who had fought at Trafalgar and whose four brothers all entered the Army. It was precisely the same wisdom which made the wife L. t!._ and Duke of Gordon send three of her boys into the Services, for her husband and his father had nearly wrecked the house with their Jacobitism, ten- tative though it was. Her Grace's prudence was imperilled by one of the sons, the beloved Lord Lewis, leaving the Navy to follow Prince Charlie. So the wise consort of his brother, the 3rd Duke, put every one of her three sons into the Services. The notorious outbreak of the youngest, George, also a naval officer, once again almost upset her calculations : but the enthusiasm of his brother, the 4th Duke, in raising four complete regiments, and generally supporting all sorts of soldiering efforts in the North, more than restored the balance of patriotism. If it was a sense of self-preservation which made these ennobled Gordons turn from the House of Stuart to the House of Hanover, it was mainly the military opportunity, afforded by each rising in turn, rather than a strong dynastic bias, which affected the rank and file, for the Gordons possess in a pre-eminent degree the soul of the Soldier, rather than the finesse of the Politician. They have always been men of action, men who have made history, and who, almost as a conse- quence, have lacked most of the laborious qualities which are necessary for recording it. So it comes about with a touch of logical irony that, with the exception of Mr. Armistead Gordon, none of the makers of this Muster possesses a drop of Gordon blood. Many hands have helped, under the co-ordinating enthusiasm of Mrs. Skelton, to make this Muster-roll. There has been a host of correspondents all over the world. There have been the officials at the British Museum, the Public Record Office, and the India Office. There are the donors of the portraits. Dr. David Littlejohn has always been ready to verify points in the unique records in his charge, while Major-General Sir A. J. F. Reid, K.C.B., and Colonel William John- ston, C.B., have worked patiently at the well-named galleys. Thus the Battle-field has Risen after many delays, trying to the patience alike of the Muster-maker and the Members of the Club. Amid disappointments and the indifference of the familiar Cuibono ? class, the men have emerged from the chaos of forgetfulness leaving many liv HOUSE OF GORDON. corners of the field still in doubt and darkness, with gaps in the ranks and voices that will not answer the Roll Call. It has risen in obedience to the strong will of the chief worker and the informal co- operation of many helpers ; and it may become still more clearly defined by the correction of many mistakes and the supply of additional data which occur to the spectators before whom this pageant of Sailors and Soldiers is paraded ; so that, taking a little liberty with M. Rostand's line, we may say : C'est le champ de bataille ! Nous I'avons voulu, c'est lui. J. M. BULLOCH. 113 PALL MALL, LONDON, S.W., Kept. 2, 1912. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 14. add, " Possibly 16a ". 16a. Alexander. Capt., his memorial dated 1709, Jul. 4, refers to his long and faithful sufferings, particularly at the battle of Landen, where he was disabled by the loss of both his leggs. His Majesty King William was graciously pleased to allow him a pension of 50 a year payable out of the funds of the Army in Scotland, and yet ever since the happy Union of the two Kingdoms, he has had no allowance, nor as yet put upon the establish- ment. Memorial referred to Lord High Treasurer (S.P. Dom., Entry Books, Peti- tions, 244, P.R.O.). Possibly 14. 18a. 1716, Capt., "a gallant gentleman," comd. "the whole fleet and near zooo men of Land Forces," sent from Bombay in 1716 against the Raja of Karwar (south of Goa), who had looted a wrecked merchant ship of Surat. Gordon, having drawn up a hollow square, received a shot "which went through the uppermost part of his left breast". His successor in com- mand bungled the defence (Clement Downing's Compendious History of the Indian Wars, 1737, p. 17). 1717, Apr., in an attack on the pirate chief Angria's stronghold of Geriah (Vijayadurg, 170 miles south of Bombay), "the gallant Capt. Gordon " was again wounded (ibid., p. 28). Possibly 19. 72. read, "Albert Edward " for "A. E." ; line 2, add "Boyes" after "Olive " ; line 3, add, " Son of Sir Henry William, 653". 76- line 8, read " Corny." for " Comp." ; line 9, read " S.C. " for " s.c." 87a. Adam. 1660, Dec., petitioned the King, refers to his deceased father's services, and continues Your Petitioner had no sooner strength for action, but did inherit his father's loyalty by serving his late Majestic under the command of the Lord Marquis of Montrose and the Marquis of Huntly, who was beheaded at Edinburgh, upon account of his Majestie's service, and by serving your Majestie under the command of the Earles of Glencarne and Middleton [1653-4] commissioned by your Majestie, as shall be evidenced by the several! certificates to be pro- duced; whereby, by great sufferings and losses sustained by your Petitioner and his father, the small fortune he doth inherit is altogether ruined, and your Petitioner himself is brought to great straits, not having a competent livelyhood or subsistence, and so will be forced to abandon his native country unless your Majestie of your Royal bounty and favour be pleased to prevent the same. Iv h Ivi HOUSE OF GORDON. May it therefore please your Sacred Majestic to take your Petitioner's sadd and low con- dition, together with his father's and his own faithfull services, and their great sufferings and losses to your Royall consideration and for the reliefe of your Petitioner's estate and future and supply of his own necessities, to bestow upon him the gift of a Lord Viscount in Scotland, in case your Petitioner shall be able to put out a competent and fitting person, both for his fortune and loyalty upon whom the same may be conferred (S.P. Dom., Charles II., bundle 15, p. 42, P.R.O.). Son of Nathaniel, 1116; served his heir, 1656, Jan. 2 (House of Gordon, I. (221)). 92. line 15, read, "North Britain" for " Gt. Britain," and add, "till 1798"; line 18, for "Son of" read "Fourth son of"; line 23, read, " H. P. Danloux, P. Audinet," for " Danlorix-Audinet ". 94-5. line 4, read, " Indep. Coy." for " Ind. Coy." 97- line 10, read, "John, 953a," for "John, b. 1791 " ; lines 16-17, read, "but for the attainder, loth Viscount, 897," for " loth Viscount". 110. add, "The Cheltenham Colonel Newcome ". Portrait produced in The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon, arranged by Douglas Sladen (Con- stable, 1912), p. 21. See also Adam Lindsay Gordon and his Friends in England and Australia, by Douglas Sladen and Edith Humphris, 1912. 116. lines 6-7, read, " gd-father of George, 4th Earl of Huntly, 470," for "had George, 3rd Earl of Huntly ". 131. line 17, add, "1743, Aug. 7, writes 'hath been an officer in the Army forty-three years, and being infirm, and having procured an annuity for his life, begs leave to retire from the Service ' " (S. P. Dom., Entry Books, Petitions, P.R.O.). 139a. Alexander. 1716, or earlier, Lt., ist Ft.; May 16, his father William, banker, Paris, writes, " he has lost not only half but whole pay in Orkney's Regiment ". Gordon himself writes from Paris, same date ; " after a very troublesome and tedious voyage, and what was yet more shocking, lurking in England, I am at last arrived here. It vexed me very much I had not the honour to be a sharer of my country's and my friends' fortunes. However since it pleased God they should not succeed at this time, I am in hopes He will not suffer those murderers and parricides to go on longer in their career and restore that Prince they have so barbarously treated ; " Oct. 12, Maj. of Ft. (Stuart Papers, Hist. MSS. Com., n. 158, in. 70). Only son of William, d. 1727, Feb. (Edin. Com.); formerly banker, Paris, later merchant in Boulogne, afterwards of Campvere, and then merchant in Edinburgh, whose origin is obscure ; served his heir 1729, Sep. n. Possibly 2058. 147- Add, line 4, " 1744, Mar. 29, writes to the Lords of the Admiralty regretting that they will not grant him three days in town to settle an estate, ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Ivii left him by a near relative just now dead, and that he is considered not worthy of a bigger ship" (Adm., Lts. Letters, P.R.O.). 162- line 5, add, " 1761, served at siege of Belleisle" ; read, " 1764, Feb. 27, h.p.," for " 1793, h.p." ; add, " B. 1728 ". 172. line 37, add, "2144 " after " Robert, of Logic ". 174- last line, add, " granted for twelve months, to go a voyage in merchant service in command of ' Mary,' bound to Africa and West Indies and back, ' of greatest importance to my private affairs ' ; refers to having comd. gunboats in America for nearly two years " (Adm., Lts. Letters, P.R.O.). 183- line ii, add, " 1803, Nov. 4, declines appt. to ' Royal William,' asks for two months leave of absence on account of family affairs, having only been three weeks home from India after an absence of seven and a half years, desiring to go to Scotland for final arrangement of private affairs" (Adm., Lts. Letters, P.R.O.). 185- line 23, read, "George, 524," for "George, 521," and line 24, "John P., 1055," for "John P., 655". 192. line 26, read, -'Alexander Herman Adam, 230," for "229". 197. line 8, add, " and William Everard Alphonso, 1492 ". 212- add, "Son of William, IV. of Aberdour, 1419 ; b. 1819, Apr. 29; went to Natal, where he was murdered, 1861, Jul. ; had three sons, one being William Rose, Summerhill, Gilletts, Natal, alive 1912". 219- line 2, add, " 1911, Dec. 2, Capt." (L.G., 1912, Jan. 19). 223- line 9, read, "Thomas Duff-Gordon, 1590," for "Thomas Duff Gordon-Duff, 1543 " 225- line 21, add, "and Caroline Augusta, w. Arthur John Lewis, 272a" ; new entry below. 249a. Andrew Douglas. 1911, Sep. 20, 2nd Lt., Middlesex Reg. (A.L., 1912). B. 1892, Nov. 21. 271- line 3, add, " 1876, as Gov'r of Fiji had much to do with the native war there, describing the campaign in Letters and Notes written during the disturbances in the Highlands (known as the Devil Country) of Viti Levn, Fiji, 1876 (Edinburgh: privately printed for R. & R. Clark, 1879; vol. I., pp. xxi, 467, vol. ii., pp. 376) " ; add, line 7, " D. 1912, Jan. 30". 272a. Arthur John Lewis. 1876, took an active part in the war in Fiji, as described at much length in his kinsman, Lord Stanmore's Letters and Notes (see 271) ! May 26, burned three small towns, Korokula, Mavala, and Mavua (ibid., i. 235) ; Jun. 6, captured the fortress town of Koroivatuma ; Jun. 7, burned it and Bukutia (ibid., I. 293-7). Iviii HOUSE OF GORDON. Eldest surviving son of George Robert, of Ellon ;. b. 1847, Mar. 19; 1866-81, in the Colonial Service in Trinidad, Mauritius, Fiji, and Canada ; 1877, C.M.G. ; in, 1885, Feb. 14, his kinswoman, Caroline Augusta, dau. of the Hon. Sir Alexander Hamilton, 225, and has one child, Cosmo Alexander, b. 1886, Jun. 13. 286- add, " Son of George ; in. 1876, Aug. 21, at Kirkee, Marie Kate, dau. of Henry Lawbuary " (7.O. Rec.). 295a. Charles. 1715, Jan. n, Ens., ist Ft. (S.P. Dom., Entry Books, P.K.O.). 298- first line, read, " Honywood's (i ith) Dgns," for " Earl of Stair's (6th) Dgns. ;> Add, " 1727, Jun. 20, Lord Stair's (6th) Dgns." (S.P.Dom., Entry Books, P.R.O.). 309a. Charles. 1792, Dec. 15, Schoolmaster, R.N., Academy Royal (A din. Reg., P.R.O.). 374- add, line u, " 1912, Aug. 9, assumed the name of Gordon Steward by Deed Poll, dated Aug. 9 (Times) ". 377. last line, read, " Hugh Mackay, 673," for " Hugh Mackay, 1673 " 382. line 5, add, " 1912, Aug. 9, assumed the name of Gordon Steward by Deed Poll, dated Aug. 9 (Times) ". 397. line 23, read, " Henry William, 652," for " Henry William, 653 ". 402a David. 1807, May 8, Chaplain, R.N., " Maida ". 1808, Feb. 8, " Africa ". 1810, Dec. 20, "Theseus" (Adm. Reg. of Chaplains, P.R.O.). Native of Ballyroney, Co. Down ; previous to entering Navy, curate of Glenavy ; his only dau. in. 1817, Apr. 5, Thomas Anderson, formerly of Somerset, Coleraine, Co. Derry. 441- line 6, read, "gdmother" for "mother (of James Gordon Francis Shirrefs-Gordon) ". 446- line 5, add, " Son of Cornelius and Mary ; b. at Llanrhidian, Glamorgan, bap. 1786, Mar. 26 ". 488- line 4, add, " 1707, or earlier, Lt., 'Crown,' appt. Comdr. 'Maid- stone,' turned out of this ship by Captain Simmonds, who proffered me to go ist Lt. of the 'Crown' again, which I refused, and went Volunteer on board the ' Maidstone,' till upon his decease, was appt. Comdr. again by Captain Fane " (Adm., Captains' Letters, P.R.O.) ; line 16, read, " Elizabeth Clayton " for " Elizabeth," and "in. before 1718, Nov. 26, when she was granted adminis- tration of the estate of her mother Elizabeth Clayton of Stepney, widow ". 489- Hne 9, read, "John, 857," for "John, 858 ". 490- line 8, add, " 2068 " after " Arthur, younger of Carnousie ". 493a George. 1711, Mar. i, Secy, to Brig. Hill (S.P. Dom., Entry Books, P.R.O.). ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Hx 507- line 2, read, "1788, May 13, a Lt. George Gordon, ; 2 nd Reg." for " 1787, May 17," ; lines 4-5, delete, "this applies equally to 508 " ; line 5, delete, "1788, Apr., served on the Coromandel Coast "; line 6, add, " 1773, apprenticed to Alexander Lumsden, Advocate, Aberdeen " (List of Ap- prentices of the Soc. of Advocates, Aberdeen). 510- line 6, delete, " Hon. William, 1797 ". 515- line 6, read, "John Glenny, 1034," for "John Glenny, 1043". 519- line 5, add, " 1792, Capt. and Lt. Col., 3rd Lt. Gds. ; " line 8, add, " 1 798, Brig. Gen., Ireland, during Rebellion " ; line 9, read, " Egmont-op-Zee " for " Bergen-op-Zoom " ; line n, add, "1803-6, Comdr. of the Forces, N. Britain. 1808, Lt. Gen. 1809, comd. a division in expedition to VValcheren. 1819, Gen. 1820, G.C.B." ; line 12, add, " 1827, Govr. of Edinburgh Castle, and Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland " ; line 13, add, " b. 1770 " ; line 19, add, " Portrait by Sir H. Raeburn, miniature by Robertson, engd. by Holl ". 524- line 21, read, "William, 1408," for " William, 4108 " 544- line 8, read, John, 994," for "John, /;. 1821, Jun. 29," etc. 561- line 5, read, " Elers' Memoirs " for " Ebers' Memoirs ". 563a. line 3, add after his father's name, " whom he succeeded, 1912, Jan.'' 564- line 4, read, "John Francis, 1030," for "John Francis, 630 " 570. add, line 12," 1897, C.V.O." ; line 13, add, " 1911, C.I. E. "; line 17, add, " D. 1912, Jan. 24, at Worthing". 575- line 10, read, " Edward Hyde Hamilton, 428," for " Edward Hyde Hamilton, 528 ". 585- line 13, delete, " Gordon Clunes, 605 " 605. line 6, delete, " Brother of George James, 585, John, 933, William, 1431 ". 627- line ii, read, " the Queen '' for " the King"; line 17, add, " 1711, Apr. 12, ' Her Majesty is inclined to recommend Cornet Gordon to the Duke of Marlborough for some preferment, in consideration of the wounds he has re- ceived in the Service and directs that she be reminded of it ' (S.P. Dom., Anne, P.R.O.) ; last line, add, "1738, Jan. 13, Henry, son of Lt. Henry, petitioned for relief (Petitions to the Lord Lieutenant, Lords Justices, and Council, Ire- land) ". 643- line 12, add, " 1818, Jul. 9, granted two years leave of absence to go to East Indies, on private affairs. 1823, Jan. 20, then in Calcutta, granted leave to remain in India (A dm., Lts. Letters, P.R.O.)". 653- line 15, add, " another son, Aflbert] E[dward], 72 ". 688a- James, 2nd Viscount of Aboyne. 1639, Jun., took possession of Aberdeen as an anti-Covenanter; Jun. 14, had a skirmish with Marischal ; Ix HOUSE OF GORDON. Jun. 18, fought a skirmish at the Bridge of Dee ; Jun. 19, fight renewed ; Jun. 21, escaped to Berwick (Spalding's Trubles, i. 204, 208, 210, 211). See his career in the French Army, 1734- 801- line 4, add after " wife " the name " Isabella ". 813- line 20, read, " Webster Thomas, 1368> nephew," for " son, of James Murray, 813". 813a. James Murray. 1795, May 6, Schoolmaster, R.N., Academy Royal (A dm. Reg., P.R.O.). 933. lines 12-13, delete, " Gordon Clunes, 605 " 947- line n, read, "John Francis, 1030," for "John Francis, 630". 953a. line 5, add, " d. num. 1813, Dec. 31 (Scots Peerage, v. 132)". 977- wrongly numbered 677- 1006- line 5, read, "Andrew Robertson, 250," for "Andrew Robertson, 258". 1018- line 3 from the end of p. 229, add, " A History of the 3oth Lancers, Gordon's Horse," by Major E. A. W. Stotherd, was published for the regiment by Gale and Polden, London and Aldershot, 1912. 1039- line 6, read, " Michael Francis " for " Michael Henry ". 1047. line 25, read, "John Frederick Strathearn, 1033," for "John Frederick Strathearn, 1032 ". 1116. Add, "Had Adam, 87a (addition), who, 1660, Dec., addressed a petition to the King (S.P. Dom., Charles II., bundle 15, p. 42, P.R.O.) in which he refers to his deceast father Colonell Nathaniel! Gordon, having from the beginning of the late warr, served your Majestie's Royal Father of ever blessed memory in England under the command of the late Earle of Strafford, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and being the first man who did draw his sword at Whitehall against the Apprentices of London and others of the tumultous vulgar rabble att that tyme, who did crye out for justice against the said Earle of Strafford and Bishop of Canterbury ; and having also served his late Majestic under his excellency the Lord Marquis of Montrose, in Scotland, till it was his fate, after a long imprisonment by his Majestie's enemies to be murdered upon the scaffold under the colour of justice. 1149- line 19, read, "Grenada" for "Granada". 1186- line ii, read, " Charles, 296, " for " Charles, 299 " 1233. last line, read, " Walter, 1616," for " Walter, 1615 ". 1247- last line, read, "John, 996," for "John, 997". 1255- line 2, add, " 1911, Jan. i, Capt. ; aviator : in the summer of 1912 he flew from Eastchurch to Walmer Barracks on the Admiralty biplane Gi ". 1279- line 2, add, " 1911, May 16, res. com. (L.G.)". 1292. line 5, add, " Son of Samuel, 1286 " 1293. line 32, read, "William Neville, 1508," for "William Neville, 1528". ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Ixi 1301a. Stephen. 1912, Jul. 27, Indian Medical Service. Son of Rev. Charles James, Penrith ; b. 1884; B.A., B.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Cambridge University, passed in 5th with 3316 marks. Brother of William, 1472. 1308- line 2, delete, " previously Hosp. Mate ". 1320- line 4, read, " Bengal Cal." for " Bengal Col." 1323. line 12, read, "Thomas, 1343" for " Thomas, 1323". 1348- line 5, insert, "Hon." between "Aug. 21," and "Capt. ". 1370a. line 7, read, " 1685 " for " 1885 ". 1381- line 18, read, "John, Earl of Sutherland, 838," for "John, Earl of Sutherland, 839 " 1397- line 29, read, " Hon. Charles, 305," for " Hon. Charles, 395 ". 1431- line 10, delete, " Gordon Climes, 605 " 1477- for " William Alexander McPherson " read " William Andrew McPherson ". 1478- line 30, read, "m. 1773 at St. John's, Hackney," for "in. 1793, at Hexham ". 1519- line u, read, " Orr Boswell, 1123," for " Orr Boswell, 1519". 1590- line 12, for " Alexander Duff, 223a," read " Alexander Duff, 223 " 1611- line 6, add "Ann," before " sister of John Crawford, 1022 ". 1623- delete this entry as it seems to refer to the same man as 1828. 1678- line 3, delete words between " Pavia " and " (C. A. Gordon's, etc.) ". 1713- lines 4 and 5, read, " Konigsberg" for " Konisberg ". 1764- line 4, for " son '' read " grandson of Edmond ". 1792- line 3, read, "John, 1757," for "John, 1759 ". 1873- line 6, for " who was " read " and ". 1875- penultimate line, read, " Callaghan '' for " Powell ". 1906a. George Augustus. 1862, Asst. (jr. Mr., "Home Guard," ist Georgia troops with rank of Capt., and served to the end of the Civil War. Son of Ebenezer (1797-1855), who was the great-great-great-grandson of Alexander (c. 1635-97), said to have been born " in the Highlands of Scot- land," and to have been a soldier in Monk's army and to have gone to Boston, 1652; b. 1827, Jul. 17, at Dover, N.H. ; educated at Dartmouth Coll.; civil engineer, journalist, genealogist ; m. 1857, Oct. 16, Ann Farley Gordon, his distant kinswoman, and had Lysson, Harry, Huntly, Agnes and Margaret ; d. 1912, May 3, at his home, 54 Belmont St., Somerville, Mass. (Boston Daily Glo