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13-1410: George Gordon may refer to: By career [ edit ] Military [ edit ] George Henry Gordon (1823–1886), U.S. Army general George Gordon (Civil War general) (1836–1911), Civil War General, Ku Klux Klan leader and U.S. Representative from Tennessee George Grant Gordon (1836–1912), British Army officer and courtier Political figures [ edit ] George Gordon of Tulloch , commissioner for Aberdeen (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Sir George Gordon (died 1690) , commissioner for Banffshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency) George Gordon (died 1691) , burgh commissioner for Dornoch (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), British politician George Newcombe Gordon (1879–1949), Canadian Member of Parliament and cabinet minister George Gordon (Ontario politician) (1888–1971), Member of Provincial Parliament George Gordon (Canadian politician) (1865–1942), senator from Ontario George William Gordon (1820–1865), Jamaican politician George A. Gordon (1885–1959), American attorney and diplomat George Anderson Gordon (1830–1872), American politician from Georgia George John Robert Gordon (1812−1902), British diplomat Religious figures [ edit ] George N. Gordon (1822–1861), Protestant missionary to
26-642: A First Class in Classical Moderations in 1904, Literae Humaniores in 1906, and the Stanhope Prize in 1905. He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford , from 1907 to 1915. Gordon was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1913 to 1922. Later, he was Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford , from 1922 to 1928; President of Magdalen College, Oxford , Professor of Poetry there, and Vice-Chancellor (1938–1941). He
39-737: A brigade in XII Corps , Army of the Potomac , at the Battle of Antietam , becoming acting division commander when Brig. Gen. Alpheus S. Williams became acting corps commander. He also took command of 1st Division, XI Corps , following the Battle of Gettysburg and was transferred with it to the Department of the South . There he commanded troops on Folly Island , South Carolina . Starting in November 1864, Gordon served in
52-533: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages George Henry Gordon George Henry Gordon (July 19, 1823 – August 30, 1886) was an American lawyer and a Union general in the American Civil War . Gordon was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts . He moved to Framingham, Massachusetts , at the age of five with his widowed mother. He graduated from
65-478: The 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry . The regiment served guarding the upper Potomac River and Frederick, Maryland , and in the spring of 1862, Gordon served under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks , unsuccessfully opposing Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley . Gordon was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers on June 12, 1862, to rank from June 9, 1862. Gordon commanded
78-712: The United States Military Academy in 1846, 43rd in a class of 59 cadets. He served under Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican–American War , earning the brevet of first lieutenant for gallantry at Cerro Gordo . He resigned from the army in 1854. After taking a course in the Harvard Law School , he practiced law in Boston . When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Gordon organized and became colonel of
91-548: The Department of Virginia. He commanded the Eastern District of that department from February 1865 until he left the army. Gordon served in the army until August 24, 1865. On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Gordon for the award of the honorary grade of brevet major general , United States Volunteers , to rank from April 9, 1865, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the award on March 12, 1866. After
104-1280: The Scottish Clan Gordon [ edit ] George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly (before 1455–1501), Chancellor of Scotland, 1498–1501 George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (1514–1562), Scottish nobleman George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly (died 1576), Lord Chancellor of Scotland George Gordon (bishop) (died 1588), bishop of Galloway George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (1562–1636), Scottish nobleman George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly (1592–1649) George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland (1633–1703), Scottish nobleman George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (1637–1720), Lord Chancellor of Scotland George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon (1643–1716), Scottish peer George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen (1722–1801), Scottish peer George Gordon of Gight (1741–1779), maternal grandfather of poet George Gordon Byron Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), politician, leader of Gordon riots George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly (1761–1853), Scottish peer George Gordon, Lord Haddo (1764–1791) George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon (1770–1836), Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860), Prime Minister of
117-1703: The South Pacific George Gordon (priest) (1760–1845), Dean of Exeter and of Lincoln Sciences [ edit ] George Gordon (botanist) (1806–1879), gardener and horticultural writer George Gordon (horticulturalist) (1841–1914), British horticulturalist and writer, awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour George Gordon (engineer) (1829–1907), Scottish Australian civil engineer George Phineas Gordon (1821–1878), American inventor, printer and businessman Sports [ edit ] George Croughly Gordon (1850–1899), Scottish amateur international footballer George Gordon (Australian footballer) (1902–1990), Australian rules footballer with Fitzroy George Gordon (New South Wales cricketer) (1846–1923), Australian cricketer George Gordon (Victoria cricketer) (1860–1946), Australian cricketer Writers and academics [ edit ] George Byron Gordon (1870–1927), American archaeologist George Stuart Gordon (1881–1942), British academic and professor of poetry George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), British Romantic poet more commonly known as Lord Byron Others [ edit ] George Gordon (animator) (1906–1986), American animator and director of cartoons for TV George Gordon (scenic artist) (c. 1839–1899), in England and Australia George Gordon (merchant) , colonial American landholder George Stanley Gordon (1926–2013), American advertising executive By family [ edit ] Members of
130-783: The United Kingdom George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen (1816–1864), British peer and Liberal Party politician George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen (1841–1870), Scottish peer and sailor George Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore (1871–1957), British Liberal politician George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1879–1965), 8th Earl of Aberdeen George Ian Alastair Gordon, 8th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (born 1983) See also [ edit ] George Hamilton-Gordon (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with George Gordon All pages with titles containing George Gordon [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
143-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Gordon&oldid=1194388569 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732847598476156-676: The war, Gordon practiced law in Boston. He was one of the founders of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. He published the following books: Gordon died in Framingham, Massachusetts , and is buried in Framingham Centre. George Stuart Gordon George Stuart Gordon (1881–12 March 1942) was a British literary scholar. Gordon was educated at the University of Glasgow and Oriel College, Oxford , where he received
169-539: Was one of the Kolbítar , J. R. R. Tolkien 's group of readers of Icelandic sagas . His students at Oxford included the author Sherard Vines . Gordon famously argued that English Literature was capable of having a widespread and positive influence. In his inaugural lecture for his Merton professorship, he argued that "England is sick, and … English literature must save it. The Churches (as I understand) having failed, and social remedies being slow, English literature has now
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