NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gordon, James, 1750-1819 DNB: Gordon, James Bentley (1750-1819), historian LBT ID: JaGordon1854 LOC ID: nr91033362 | B/BAP: 1791-04-16 DIED: 1854-03-04 |
SOURCES: historyofparliamentonline.org; LOC Name Authority File | |
The son of James Gordon of Moor Place (d. 1822) and Harriet Whitbread; educated at Harrow
and St. John’s College, Cambridge, he was a wealthy landowner and Tory MP for Tregony
(1830-32). | |