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John Gordon (soldier)

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on 25 April 1804. In 1804 Gordon made a grand tour of Egypt, carving his name on many ancient monuments. He returned home via Gibraltar where he boarded
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children, John Gordon of Cluny, his eldest son, was the only one to outlive him. The Cluny estate passed to his widow,
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Gordon received a compensation payment of £24,964, as his six plantations on the Caribbean island of
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Roger O. De Keersmaecker "AN EARLY SCOTTISH TRAVELLER IN EGYPT (In search of John Gordon 1804)"
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Cluny Castle (pictured here in 1966) was one of the properties inherited by Gordon in 1814.
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Gordon became major on 11 August 1808 and lieutenant-colonel on 6 June 1820.
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On the death of his father in 1814, Gordon inherited his estates including
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on 2 December 1800. He was then lieutenant in the 7th Company of the
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Gordon died a bachelor without legal issue in 1858; of his
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in 1851 alone. After the British government introduced the
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were both evicted and forced to board emigrant ships to
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Tory
Braid
Cluny
Royal Aberdeenshire Light Infantry
55th Aberdeenshire Militia
HMS Victory
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Cluny Castle
British West Indies
North
South Uist
Benbecula
Barra
Scottish Gaelic
Hebrides
Highland Clearances
Outer Hebrides
Canada
Slavery Abolition Act 1833
Tobago
Member of Parliament
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
illegitimate
Emily Gordon
Saskatchewan
Roger O. De Keersmaecker "AN EARLY SCOTTISH TRAVELLER IN EGYPT (In search of John Gordon 1804)"
"Special collections, Ref: MS 3127"
University of Aberdeen

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