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GORDONS UNDER ARMS. 1 79
(Church of Scotland) Bombay Eccles. Estab. 1904, Mar. 22, Junior Chaplain ;
Jun. 27, Chaplain Sind Rif. Vols. igo6, Jul. 28, res. his com. in the Vols.
{I.A.L., 1904-6; Times of India).
Second son of Rev. William, minister of Glenbervie {d. 1902), who was
the son of Peter in Reekimlane, Cabrach ; M.A. Aberdeen, 1891 ; B.D. 1894
B.Sc. 189s ; in. 1901, Feb. 26, Annie Sutherland, dau. of John Sutherland Gunn
M.B. Abd., Surgeon, I. M.S., and his wife, Annie, dau. of George Ferguson
Humanist, Univ. and King's Coll., Abd. ; has Annie Drummond, b. 1903
Nov. 3, bap. 1904, Jan. 7, and William Lindsay Drummond, b. 1906, Oct. 24
791- James Edward. 1804, Apr. 14, Vol. ist Class, R.N., " Ville de
Paris," Channel, aged 16 ; Oct. i. Mid. 1806, Nov. 25, Mid., " Royal
Sovereign," Mediterranean 1808, Aug. 22, Supy., " Malta," passage from
Mediterranean; Nov. 5, Mid., "Ville de Paris," Plymouth, Coast of Spain,
and Mediterranean. 1810, Jan. 27, Mid. and Master's Mate. 181 1, Jan. 29,
Mid., " Barfleur," Lisbon; May 5, Lt. (act.) "Vestal," confirmed May 17;
Jun. 7, passed as Lt. (Adm. Indexes, Midshipmen, N. Board Lts. Passing
Ccrtif., P.R.O.). 1812, Dec. 22, Lt., " Lacedaemonia," America. 1814, Nov.
16, in command, " St. Lawrence," Havannah and Bermudas. 1815, while
proceeding with despatches from R. Adm. Cockburn, relative to the peace
between Great Britain and United States, was captured Feb. 26, in Gulf of
Florida alter a desperate action with the American privateer brig " Chasseur " ;
being shortly afterwards re-taken, in compliance with the orders of Sir James
Alexander Gordon was commissioned afresh at Havannah, Mar. 7, by
Gordon; acquitted for loss of St. Lawrence by Court Martial, Apr. 21, dis-
charged ; Apr. 22, h.p. [Adm. Offs. Services, P.R.O. ; O'Bryne's A^an. Biog.
Die.; N.L., 1811-64; 'Ma.cXa.y's American Privateers, 295-300; Coggleshall's
American Privateers, 362-7 ; Statham's Privateers).
Son of James, of Littlefolla, Fyvie, and Ann McDonald, Coclarachie ; b.
17S9, Mar. II, at Coclarachie, Abernethy ; m. 1836, Oct. 25, Barbara [d. i860,
Jan. 9, aged 63), one of the seven daus. of Samuel Smith, banker, brother of
the first Lord Carrington, and Elizabeth Frances Tumor, and had Edward
Smith, 431, George Maxwell, 593, and a dau. ; M.P. for Dundalk, 1831-2 ; an
uncompromising Protestant lecturer and pamphleteer, professing Anglicanism,
Hon. Sec, Brit. Reformation Soc. and Vice President of the Protestant Al-
liance. Gordon d. 1864, Apr. 30, at 20 Porchester Terrace, Hyde Park (J. M.
Bulloch in Himtly Express, igo6, Sep. 15, Banffsh. Herald, 1910, Apr. 9).
Brother of Adam, 107, George, 529, James Alexander, 784, Peter, 1155, and
Robert, 1236- First cousin of John, 909-
792- James Edward. 1901, Mar. 13, 2nd Lt., ist Wilts Rif. Vols.