GORDON, John (1794-1843).

Gordon’s grandfather was precentor and his father dean of Lincoln and both were active in local politics.Sir F. Hill, Georgian Lincoln, passim. Gordon himself was returned for Athlone by its patron William Handcock, Lord Castlemaine, who normally sold the seat to the Treasury. He was classed by Peel as a supporter of government and voted against Tierney’s motion for a committee on the state of the nation, 18 May 1819. His only reported contribution to debate, in support of the grant for the Windsor establishment, 25 Feb. 1819, was barely reported as Gordon ‘spoke in so low a tone’ that the reporters ‘could catch only fragments of sentences’. He voted against Catholic relief on 3 May and in the minority against the extension of the franchise at Penryn, 22 June. He also supported ministers on the seditious libel bill, 23 Dec. 1819.

Gordon, who was replaced at Athlone in 1820, subsequently entered the church. He died 7 May 1843.G. W. Marshall, Edwinstow Regs. 172; Gent. Mag. (1843), i. 213 gives 8 May.