GENERAL GORDON.
A eontempprary^ writes :— " Majbiv , General Charies. GeQrge .Gordon, CEj;,." 8.E., the gallani ; hero whose death- at._ ! K|i.artouni ha? now been deplored^ cainc; T of' a- aistinguisiied; Scottish . '* %htiflfp ; family."- As one; of* his biographei'spoints out, there are at. least a hundred, ;ofiicers m the British army at the -pre- > sent time bearing the same historic name. General Gordon's fatheiv wasiinu. .. officer m the Royal Artillery, -and.' his mother, Elisabeth' Endprby,' was tho v daughter of a wealthy merchant ' Jtt Blackheath. Gordon's progenitors by' 1 his mother's side were riieinbers of; a great trading firm. They took out m ■. their ship's the, first .convicts to "Botany 'Bay, ;: and deserters -, from their "\^whalers ■ fbrrned some of the earliest settlers' m New Zealand. General Gpi'dpn : ;waS • torn at Woolwich on the 2sth ■ January, 1838, and thereforo died on the clay before; completing his 52ndyeai?>> : It,was on his birthday that the rescuing expedition arrived off Khartoum. . a . .1 ; a .;■ ',
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 66, 19 February 1885, Page 3
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157GENERAL GORDON. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 66, 19 February 1885, Page 3
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