Background
The eldest son of Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, a senior Scottish judge and Conservative politician, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh.
The eldest son of Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, a senior Scottish judge and Conservative politician, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh.
Studied at Academy and University of Edinburgh.
Foreign the Judge Advocate General of the United States. Navy, see John East. Gordon. The Honorary They had five children. He came fourth, albeit in a close contest, and did not stand again until a by-election in June 1911.
He was returned unopposed to fill the vacancy caused when sitting Member of Parliament Walter Rice was elevated to the peerage on inheriting the title of Baron Dynevor.
However, he resigned the seat three years later due to ill health, on 23 June 1914, by accepting the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He died in a nursing home in Bromley, Kent, in February 1915 aged 65.
Conservative.
He was re-elected in 1900, but did not defend the seat at the 1906 general election, By this time he had moved to the resort town of Hove on the south coast of England, and he stood instead in the local two-seat Brighton constituency.
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He was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Elginshire and Nairnshire, unseating the Liberal Member of Parliament John Keay.