Bibliography of the Gordons

A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gordon, Rev. Sir Adam {Continued).
A Thanksgiving sermon on the occasion of His Majesty's
late happy escape from the dangerous and alarming attempt
against his life : preached in the parish church of Hinxworth
on Sunday, Aug. 20, 1786.
8vo. pp. viii + 9-38. Text, Psalm xx. 6. This refers to the at-
tempt made, Aug. 2, 1786, by Margaret Nicholson to stab
George III. with an old dessert knife outside St. James's Palace.
The B.M. copy is the one presented to the Duke of Chandos.
Two sermons preached on Wednesday, March 9, 1796,
being the day appointed for a general fast.
London: J. Stockdale [1796?].
Advertised in Gordon's " Due sense of divine favour" (1798).
Two discourses, preached March 8, 1797, being the day
appointed for a general fast. London : J. Stockdale.
Advertised in Gordon's " Due sense of divine favour" (1798).
{Edited.] A Pattern for parish clerks ; being [39] letters
written by an obscure member of that fraternity : selected
from an occasional correspondence with the editor.
London : printed for the benefit of his infirm and aged
widow, and sold by J. Hubbard, 1816.
8vo. pp. 102. There is a memoir of the author, Thomas Upchurch,
by Gordon (pp. 1-8). Upchurch was born at Morden, Cam-
bridge, six miles from Hinxworth, and died July 28, 1815, aged
71. "He had been clerk to my uncle [by marriage, the Rev.
Thomas Holden], and predecessor in the living of Hinxworth
many years, and at the decease of that truly respected character
he continued the post under me." The letters were written to
Sir Adam between Nov. 16, 1796, and June 27, 1815.
Gordon, Adam Bernard Smits.
Born c. 1736; son of Jacob Gordon (1701 P-1776), major-gen. in the
Dutch service (" Gordons under arms," no. 1732), who was son
of Robert Gordon (c. 1651-1724), burgomaster of Schiedam;
who was son of Robert Gordon (d. 1693), claiming to be a great
grandson of James Gordon of Letterfourie, and therefore kins-
man of Gertruyd Gordon (q.v.). He was a candidate of philo-
sophy at Zutphen University in 1758 ; studied theology at Ley-
den, 1761 ; and became a chaplain of the fleet. He married
Elizabeth Anna van Crickelens, and had two children, one of
them, Johanna Maria, dying at Utrecht, March 13, 1873. (In-
formation from Frans Gordon, Leyden, 1912). Brother of Otto
Dirck Gordon (q.v.), and of Col. Robert Jacob Gordon (q.v.).
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