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General Bank of India, and one of the Police
Gommasakniexs of Calcutta in 1788. He was
also junior counsel to the East India Company.
He was twice married. His first wife, whom
he married on April 25, 1753, was a Jewess,
Isabella Levi. This lady was the only daughter
of Eliias Levi, merchant (Who had married in
1723 Judy, daughter of Moses Hart, bringing
.£6000 of South Sea Stock as her marriage por-
tion). This f urtune was to go to Mrs Hart, then
to her daughter (Mrs Gordon), and failing her
to the children of Harf 6 sister, Galley, who
married Joy Adolphus, doctor of physic. Mrs
Gordon, who died witihouit issue, March 17, 1754,
was possibly a widow When Gordon married
her, for she is described in the House of Lords
journals as "Isabella Gordon, formerly Lucas"
— not Levi. Gordon found himself a defendant
in a strange galley of Israelites over the money
already mentioned. An action was grought by
Jacob Galley, Myra, Helena, Susanna, Jacobit,
and Semela Adolphus, the children of Joy
Adolphus, formerly of Cleves, but afterwards
doctor of physic in London, with David Wang
as their "friend," against Gordon, and Mildred
Adolphus, Judy Levy, Aaron Pranks, Joseph
Martin, John Lade and Hester his wife. The
pleadings in the case are preserved in the Brit-
ish Museum (Add. MBS. 36,174, ff. 372-393). The
Court of Chancery decided (November 20, 1758,
and February 23, 1767) against the defendants,
and Gordon appealed to the House of Lords,
who dismissed the appeal on April 10, 1768
(House of Lords Journals, xxxii, p. 326). Gordon
married, secondly, by license, October 4, 1770
the Hon. Catherine Wallop, the only daughter
of John (Wallop) Lord Lymingiton, and the sister
of John, 2nd Elarl of Portsmouth. The marriage
register of HurSDbourne Priors, Hampshire (p.
77), describes them as "both of St George's,
Hanover Square.'" Gordon died at Calcutta on
March 24, 1788. His wife died May 1813. The
"Calcutta Chronicle" (March 27, 1788) says that
Gordon was "a man beloved and esteemed by
all who knew him. When he found death ap*
preaching he behaved with becoming fortitude
and resignation. The following very affecting
note was written by him to Mr William Berrie
on his pillow with a pencil a short time before
he died: — 'Dear B,— I am here a-dying — have
no recollection— ipast or present. — Yours, L.
Gordon.' We /could quote many instances of
his tenderness, humanity, and extreme sensi-
bility." According to the same authority, he
had two sons and two daughters, but I have
been able to identify only one daughter: —
(1) Lootkhart Gordon, born July 28, 1775. He
was educated at Magdalen College, Cam-
bridge, 'taking- his M.A. in 1798.
(2) Loudon Haroouirt Gordon, born May 9, 1780.