Name of Gordon

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Helen Gordon, daughter of Sir Jas. Gordon, whose
male issue became extinct, so that the estate
reverted to Lachlan Duff, the son of Sir James's
daughter Mrs Duff. On coming into the estate
he took the additional name of Gordon. The
present laird is his great-grandson. Mr Edward
Gordon Duff, born 1863 : youngest son of the late
Robert Duff, is a well-known authority on biblio-
graphy and book-binding.
EVANS-GORDON.— The "London Gazette" of
Feb. 6, 1816, had the following advertisement: —
Captain Charles S[amuel] S[palding] Evans,
76th Foot, and [his brother] Lieutenant Henry
Andrew Grant Evans, 22nd Regiment, have been
permitted to assume and bear the name of
Gordon, in addition and after that of Evans.
[The latter officer married Sarah Hunter (died
1861), widow of John Cookson, Win t eh ill Park,
Durham, and assumed the name of Cookson in
compliance with Mr Oookson's will, but he re-
sumed the name of Evans in 1865 (" London
Gazette," march 23, 1865). Mrs Frances Emma
Valentina Evans, the mother of these two offi-
cers, took the name of Evans Gordon. (Lyon
Register, vol. iv., February 3, 1815.)]
The Evans-Gordons are descended from Jean
Gordon, daughter of Alexander Gordon of
Shirniere, cadet of Lochinvar. She married
Alexander Spalding of Holm, Kirkcudbright.
Her second son 'Samuel Spalding of Devizes,
was the father of Frances Euuna Valentina
Spalding, who married Colonel George Evans of
Broekley, Suffolk.
GORDON FORBES.— There is a family known
as the Gonlon Forbes, founded by General Gordon
Forbes, colonel of the 29th Regiment, who raised
the 71th Highlanders. He Avas the eighth son of
Nathaniel Forbes of Auchernaeh. Major Lachlan
Forbes tells me that " these Forbeses were not
specially connected by blood with the Gordons,
except that their direct ancestor George Forbes
of Skellater had married Christian, daughter of
Gordon of Glenbucke 1 :. But they have long been
called the 'Gordon Forbeses' because they were
the only branch of the Forbes family who allied
themselves with the Gordons against the Coven-
anters."