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was followed by another sensation, when Lady
Granville deeampted with it (on a tug) to Dun-
kirk to get beyond the leash of the law. This was
on March 11, and next day Sir Francis Jeune
granted, on the application of Mr Christian
Gordon, a committal order against her for con-
tempt of Court. Several other legal proceedings
took place, and her presentation at Court on
March 13, 1891, as Mrs Christian Gordon was
cancelled. "The Annual Peerages" still assign
the fatherhood of the child to Christian Gordon.
Lord Granville died June 14, 1907 (his 51et
birthday), on board the liner Prince Ludwig,
on the voyage between Suez and Aden. He was
on hw way to Yokohama with Lady Granville
and the child. He had beeu taken ill on June
4 of pneumonia. He was buried in the General
Cemetery, Colombo, June 21. By his first wife
he had two sons and a daughter —
(1) Charles Henry Granville Gordon, born
June 19, 1880. He was educated at Eton,
and spent the sessions of 1896-7 and 1897-8
at King's College, Aberdeen. He then be-
came second lieutenant in the 3rd battalion
Gordon Highlanders. At midnight of
Friday, July 13, 1899, he and three brother
officers set off to rag the rooms of his cousin,
Mr Francis Lewis Eawson Gordon (who was
also in the regiment), at Albert Cottage,
448 King Street, Aberdeen. In clambering
along 'the waterspout to gain an entrance,
which gave way, he fell to the ground and
ruptured his stomach. He died of his in-
juries in the Northern Nursing Home, Car-
den Terrace, on Sunday morning, July 16.
"Although only nineteen, he was close on
six feet in height, and when he wore the
Highland costume, of which he was very
fond, he was as handsome a figure," says
the "Aberdeen Free Press," "as one could
see in the street." He was buried at
Longueville.
(2) Granville Cecil Douglas Gordon, usually
known as Douglas Gordon, 'born Apiril 28,
1883. He began his career as 2nd lieutenant,
September 14, 1901, in the 3rd battalion Gor-
don Highlanders ("23rd Mounted Infantry,"
in South Africa), and joined the 1st Scots
Guards at Bloemfontein, December 1901. He
took part in the operations in the Transvaal,
July-December 1901, and in the Orange River
Colony, January-May 1902. He became
lieutenant, February 1, 1904. He played
centre forward football for his regiment.
He married at the Guards Chapel, Welling-
ton Barracks, London, April 4, 1907, Violet,
only daughter of Gerard Streatfeild, Pul-
brook House, Eilstead, Surrey, a member of
the Streatfeild family of Chiddingston*,