Gordon

Submitted by edpope on

19.2.1792 at Holcroft's / 29.9.1793 at Shield's / 3.11.1793 & 24.11.1793 at Perry's / 30.11.1793 at Wright's / 4.12.1793 at Holcroft's / 24.8.1794 at Gray's / 3.12.1795, 1.3.1796 & 8.4.1796 at John King's  / 16.4.1796 at Perry's / 14.12.1796 at House of Commons / 8.11.1797 at Holcroft's / 22.6.1798 at House of Commons / 28.12.1799 adv at Tobin's / 31.10.1800 Gordons at Northmore's / 3.7.1801 maj. Gordon & femme at Perry's. In these entries Gordon was with Perry 11 times, Holcroft 9 times, Porson 4 times, & Gray, Gillies and Barnes 3 times each.  At King's, Tobin's and Northmore's he was not with any of his usual associates, but In the 3 entries at King's he was with Este 2 times, which was also a newspaper connection. There was a Gordon in Godwin's 1796 list for 1787, also in the 1794 version.

A Mr Gordon was a parliamentary debate reporter (along with Mr Gray) and sometime editor of the Gazetteer newspaper. Most reporters worked for several newspapers. Nat Arch C104/67 & 68 are the letters and books of the Gazetteer and from these I gleaned that Mr Gordon's first name was George. Boyle's 1792-4 has G Gordon Esq Parliament St. The subscription list to Watkin Tench's Complete Account ...of Port Jackson, NSW 1793 included a George Gordon as well as James Gray, Lancaster Court; also John Barnes, Thavies Inn; William Gilles, Crutched Friars; Lt Col Hay, Leith Hall; all of whom may have been the people of those surnames associated with Perry in Godwin's diary.

The Gordon at King's on 3.12.1795 when he was listed next to Housselaer (qv), was probably Walter Gordon soap maker of Lambeth Walk, Lambeth SunFire 1792, see Nat Arch C 13/2331/18 Haussoullier v Walter Gordon, John King, Daniel Lovell (qv) and others. The other two times Gordon was at King's, the newspaperman Charles Este was present, so it could have been George Gordon the reporter (see above) or Walter Gordon (who regularly advertised his Violet Soap in the Gazetteer, of which George Gordon had been editor).

Pryse Lockhart Gordon DNB 1762-1845 in his Personal Memoirs p 261 mentioned his older brother George (born 1756) who was a member of a club with James Perry and Richard Porson. Pryse was in Italy from about 1797 until May 1801and may have been serving as a soldier in Scotland for most of the period 1792-7, but he knew James Perry and James Gray well so he may have been some of the above Gordons if on leave in that period. The entry of 5.7.1801 at Perry's of Major Gordon & femme almost certainly was Pryse and his new (second) wife Maria Ann. George son of Pryce Lockhart Gordon & Elizabeth Brown bapt 8.6.1794 St Nicholas Aberdeen / Maria Eliza dau of Price Locket & Maria Ann Gordon born 5.3.1812 bapt St Ann Soho 1.5.1812

15.8.1808 sup at mrs Topping's, w. mrs Gordon, C(harles) C(lairmont) & M(ary) J(ane) / 29.9.1812 sup at Topping's, w. M(ary) J(ane), & W Gordon / 12.1.1813 Toppings 3 & W Gordon dine / 26.12.1817 W Gordon calls

27.7.1811 Gordon calls / 24.4.1816 theatre, w. Y(aniewicz)s, Duncan, Gordon &c (in Edinburgh)