Name of Gordon

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Other Surnames Abandoned.
The Gordonising of surnames tafces two forms.
In some cases the eumni&nne is completely given
up in favour of Gordon; 'but in most cases it is
added to the Gordon with the double barrelled
effect, which ihias become popular, apparently with
the object of giving individuality to the bearer.
I fanow only two instances where Gordon has
been adopted for another surname: —
GORDON BECOMES BENTLEY.— The "Lou-
don Gazette,'' May 17, 1777, announces that: —
The King- has been pleased to grant unto
Bentley Gordon, one of the sons of Alexander
Gordon, late merohant of the City of London,
nierelrant, by Penelope, his wife, daughter of
Charles Bentley, late of Naisth, in the county of
Worcester, Esq., deceased, and to his issue 'His
Royal Licence aud Authority he take and use
the surname of Bentley, and also to bear the
arms of the Bentley family.
Bentley Gordon Bentley ("of Kingston, War-
wick ") married at Leith, Joanna Livingston iu
1781 (Gent.'s Mag.).
Bentley appears as a name in another family of
Gordon, for the Rev. James Bentley Gordon (1750-
1819), historian and geographer, was the eon of
the Rev. James Gordoa of Neeve Hall, London-
derry, by his wife, a daughter of Thomas Neeve,
the nephew of Richard Bentley, the famous Greek
•scholar. He graduated B.A. at Trinity College,
Dublin, in 1773, amd entered the Church. He
wrote:— "Terraquea, or a New System of Geo-
graphy and Modern History," 1790-3; "A History
of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1798," 1801; "A
History of Ireland," 1805; "A History of the
British IsUhs," 1815; and "An Historical
and Geographical Memoir of bhe North
American Continent " (with an ac-
count of his life). Some unpublished lette-re of
his, written to Lord Hardwicke, occur in the Ad-
dntkraal MSS. at the British Museum (35751;
35,753; 35,754). He married in 177!> a daughter of
Ricihard Bookey of Wiofclow, a.md had
James George Gordon: kiiicd at Fort Sand-
usky in Canada, 1813.