See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

LORD See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• GORDON
• GORDON, ADAM LINDSAY (1833—1870)
• GORDON, ALEXANDER (c. 1692—c. 1754)
• GORDON, CHARLES GEORGE (1833-'885)
• GORDON, LEON
• LORD GEORGE GORDON (1751-1793)
• GORDON, PATRICK (1635–1699)
• GORDON, SIR JOHN WATSON (1788—1864)

GORDON (1751-1793)  , third and youngest son of Cosmo See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George, See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• GORDON
• GORDON, ADAM LINDSAY (1833—1870)
• GORDON, ALEXANDER (c. 1692—c. 1754)
• GORDON, CHARLES GEORGE (1833-'885)
• GORDON, LEON
• GORDON, LORD GEORGE (1751-1793)
• GORDON, PATRICK (1635–1699)
• GORDON, SIR JOHN WATSON (1788—1864)

Gordon, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 26th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1751 . After completing his See also:

• EDUCATION

education at See also:

• ETON

Eton, he entered the See also:

• NAVY

navy, where he See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose to the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant in 1772, but See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• SANDWICH
• SANDWICH, EDWARD MONTAGU, or MOUNTAGU, 1ST EARL OF (1625–1672)
• SANDWICH, JOHN MONTAGU, 4TH EARL OF (1718–1792)

Sandwich, then at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the See also:

• ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF

admiralty, would not promise him the command of a See also:

• SHIP

ship, and he resigned his See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission shortly before the beginning of the See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . In 1774 the See also:

• POCKET

pocket See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough of Ludgershall was bought for him by See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General See also:

• FRASER
• FRASER, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL (1819– )
• FRASER, JAMES (1818-1885)
• FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (1783--1856)
• FRASER, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS

Fraser, whom he was opposing in See also:

• INVERNESS

Inverness-See also:

• SHIRE

shire, in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to bribe him not to contest the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county . He was considered flighty, and was not looked upon as being of any importance . In 1779 he organized, and made himself head of the See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant associations, formed to secure the See also:

• REPEAL (O.F. rapel, modern rappel, from rapeler, rappeler, revoke, re and appeler, appeal)

repeal of the See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• RELIEF

Relief See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of 1778 . On the 2nd of See also:

• JUNE

June 178o he headed the See also:

• MOB

mob which marched in procession from St George's See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

Fields to the Houses of See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

Parliament in order to See also:

• PRESENT

present the See also:

• MONSTER (Lat. monstrum, from root of monere, to warn; i.e. something terrible or portentous)
• MONSTER, GEORG, COUNT ZU (1776-1844)

monster See also:

• PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

petition against the acts . After the mob reached See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster a terrific See also:

• RIOT (0. Fr. riote, of uncertain etymology)

riot ensued, which continued several days, during which the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city was virtually at their See also:

• MERCY (adapted from Fr. merci, Lat. merces, reward)
• MERCY (or MERCI), FRANZ, FREIHERR VON

mercy . At first indeed they dispersed after threatening to make a forcible entry into the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of See also:

• COMMONS

Commons, but reassembled soon afterwards and destroyed several See also:

• ROMAN

Roman Catholic chapels, pillaged the private dwellings of many Roman Catholics, set See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire to Newgate and See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke open all the other prisons, attacked the See also:

• BANK

Bank of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and several other public buildings, and continued the See also:

• WORK

work of violence and conflagration until the interference of the military, by whom no fewer than 450 persons were killed and wounded before the riots were quelled . For his See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in instigating the riots Lord Gordon was apprehended on a See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of high See also:

• TREASON (Fr. trahison, Lat. traditio)

treason; but, mainly through the skilful and eloquent See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of See also:

• ERSKINE, EBENEZER (1680-1754)
• ERSKINE, HENRY (1746-1817)
• ERSKINE, JOHN
• ERSKINE, JOHN (1721-1803)
• ERSKINE, RALPH (1685-1752)
• ERSKINE, THOMAS
• ERSKINE, THOMAS ERSKINE, 1ST BARON (1750-1823)

Erskine, he was acquitted on the ground that he had no treasonable intentions . His See also:

• LIFE

life was henceforth full of crack-brained schemes, See also:

• POLITICAL

political and See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial . In 1786 he was excommunicated by the See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury for refusing to See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear See also:

• WITNESS
• WITNESS (from O. Eng. witan, to know)

witness in an ecclesiastical.suit; and in 1787 he was convicted of libelling the See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador and the See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice in England . He was, however, permitted to withdraw from the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court without See also:

• BAIL

bail, and made his See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape to See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland; but on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of representations from the court of See also:

• VERSAILLES

Versailles he was commanded to quit that See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and, returning to England, was apprehended, and in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1788 was sentenced inference from carefully surveyed fact; with many See also:

• VARIATIONS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF

variations of See also:

• MOOD

mood he mixed, as we often see in See also:

• PEOPLE

people less famous, an invincible faith in his own rapid prepossessions while they lasted .

Everybody now discerns that to despatch a soldier of this temperament on a piece of business [the See also:

• MISSION

mission to the See also:

• SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan in 1884] that was not only difficult and dangerous, as See also:

• SIR

Sir E . See also:

• BARING

Baring said, but profoundly obscure, and needing vigilant sanity and self-See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control, was little better than to See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call in a wizard with his magic . Mr See also:

• GLADSTONE
• GLADSTONE, JOHN HALL (1827-1902)
• GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART (1809–1898)

Gladstone always professed perplexity in understanding why the violent end of the gallant See also:

• CAVAGNARI, SIR PIERRE LOUIS NAPOLEON (1841–1879)

Cavagnari in See also:

• AFGHANISTAN

Afghanistan stirred the See also:

• WORLD

world so little in comparison with the See also:

• FATE

fate of Gordon . The See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer is that Gordon seized the See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination of England, and seized it on its higher See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side . His See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion was See also:

• ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric, but it was religion; the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible was the See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock on which he founded himself, both old See also:

• DISPENSATION

dispensation and new; he was known to hate forms, ceremonies and all the ' See also:

• SOLEMN (Lat. sollemnis, sollemnis, less correctly solennis, yearly, annual; from sollus = totus, whole, entire, Gr. Mos., and annus, year)

solemn plausibilities'; his speech was See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp, pithy, rapid and ironic; above all, he knew the ways of war and would not bear the See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword for nought." to five years' imprisonment in Newgate, where he lived at his ease, giving dinners and dances . As he could not obtain securities for his See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good behaviour on the termination of his See also:

• TERM

term of imprisonment, he was not allowed to leave Newgate, and there he died of delirious See also:

• FEVER (Lat. febris, connected with fervere, to burn)

fever on the 1st of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1793 .. Some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time before his See also:

• APPREHENSION (Lat. ad, to; prehendere, to seize)

apprehension he had become a convert to Judaism, and had undergone the initiatory rite . A serious defence of most of his eccentricities is undertaken in The Life of Lord George Gordon, with a Philosophical See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review of his Political Conduct, by See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• WATSON, RICHARD (1737-1816)
• WATSON, THOMAS (c. 1557–1592)
• WATSON, WILLIAM (1858- )
• WATSON, WILLIAM (c. 1559-1603)

Watson, M.D . (London, 1795) . The best accounts of Lord George Gordon are to be found in the See also:

• ANNUAL

Annual Registers from 178o to the See also:

• YEAR

year of his See also:

• DEATH

death .