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tal) rank and Staff Corps, January 1, 1862. He was lieut.-
colonel on the Staff Corps, July 16, 1863, and retired
July 18, 1864. He was created Knight of St Gregory by Pius
IX. in 1854. He married on November 21, 1844 Jemima
Catherine (born May 3, 1824), daughter of Sir John Curnin,
of the Calcutta Mint. She died Feb. 24, 1893. Gordon died
at Southport, March 7, 1894. He had :—
(1) William Gordon, born September 24, 1824: died
September 20, 1846.
(2) Mary Josephine Gordon, born April 27, 1847. She
married as his second wife, June 24, 1879, Clement
Robert William Gordon, solicitor, Banff, son of
William Robert Gordon (1812-1898), Procurator-
Fiscal of Banff, etc., member of the Lettoch family,
as already noted.
(3) Harriett Plauda Gordon, born July 21, 1848 : died
March 29, 1851.
5. James Fraser Gordon, born September 7, 1816. He was
at Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1831, and was ad-
mitted a W.S. July 15, 1852. He married, July 27,
1851, Eleanor Sinclair, daughter of Archibald Leslie of
Balnageith, by Eleanor Atlee (1800-92). Mrs Gordon
died in 1851. Gordon died at Reigate, April 12, 1861,
aged 44. A biography of his mother-in-law was written
by J. M. Stone for the Art and Book Company, London
and Leamington, 1899. Archibald Leslie was the son of
Rev. William Leslie, St. Andrews, Lhanbryd. He came
under the influence of Father Clapperton, in Edinburgh,
and Mrs Leslie entered the Church of Rome in 1846, one
of her friends, Mr Robert Aitken (who had run a dissent-
ing chapel in Waterloo Road, London), writing her — ■
" You will be damned, I believe, eternally." James
Fraser Gordon had a son : —
Michael Fraser Gordon, born 1857 : died unmarried.
6. Lndovick Gordon : died an infant.
7. Ludovick Gordon : died an infant.
8. William Fletcher Gordon, was born in Sept. 1826. He
was educated at Blairs College and the Edinburgh Mili-
tary Academy. He entered the Bombay Infantry as a
cadet, February 18, 1844. He was second lieutenant in
the 1st European Regiment of Fusiliers, December 21,
1844, and first lieutenant, June 19, 1846. He served in
the Central Mutiny Campaign, 1848. He acted as sub-
assistant commissary-general (at Hyderabad) 1849-55,
and became deputy-assistant commissary-general, Oct.
4, 1855. He went through the Indian Mutiny under Sir
Hugh Rose, being present at the sieges of Jhansi (where
Francis David, son of Michael Francis Gordon, laird of
Abergeldie, was killed), Calpee and Gwalior, being two
years under canvas. He served also in the Persian Ex-
pedition under Sir James Outram, and received the