| 词条 | William Gordon (Royal Navy officer, born 1784) |
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|name= William Gordon |image=William Gordon (d.1858).jpg |image_size = |caption=William Gordon by Henry William Pickersgill |birth_date= 18 December 1784 |death_date= {{death-date and age|3 February 1858|18 December 1784}} |birth_place= |death_place= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |serviceyears= |rank= Vice-Admiral |branch= Royal Navy |commands= Nore Command |unit= |battles= |awards= |laterwork= }} Vice-Admiral William Gordon (18 December 1784 – 3 February 1858)[1] was a Scottish naval commander and Tory[2] politician. Naval careerGordon was the second son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo, son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.[2] His mother was Charlotte, daughter of William Baird,[2] while Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir Robert Gordon were his brothers. He joined the Royal Navy in 1797 and went on to be Fourth Naval Lord from 1841 to 1846 and Commander-in-Chief, The Nore from 1854 to 1857.[2] He was elected at a by-election in September 1820 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeenshire,[3] and held the seat until August 1854,[1] when he resigned by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.[4] Gordon died in February 1858[2] and Cape Gordon on Vega Island in the Antarctic is now called after him.[5] References1. ^1 {{rayment-hc|a|1|date=March 2012}} 2. ^1 2 3 The Peerage.com 3. ^1 {{cite book |last=Stooks Smith |first=Henry. |editor= Craig, F. W. S. |title=The Parliaments of England |origyear=1844–1850 |edition= 2nd |year=1973 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-13-2 |page=616 |editor-link= F. W. S. Craig}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf |title=Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850 |author=Department of Information Services |publisher=House of Commons Library |date=9 June 2009 |accessdate=30 November 2009}} 5. ^Australian Antarctic Data Centre External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire | years = 1820–1854 | before = James Ferguson | after = Lord Haddo }}{{s-mil}}{{succession box | title=Fourth Naval Lord | before=Sir James Dundas | after=Henry Rous | years=1841–1846}} |-{{succession box | title=Commander-in-Chief, The Nore | years=1854–1857 | before=Josceline Percy| after=Sir Edward Harvey}}{{end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, William}} 18 : 1784 births|1858 deaths|Lords of the Admiralty|Royal Navy admirals|Tory MPs (pre-1834)|Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912)|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies|UK MPs 1820–26|UK MPs 1826–30|UK MPs 1830–31|UK MPs 1831–32|UK MPs 1832–35|UK MPs 1835–37|UK MPs 1837–41|UK MPs 1841–47|UK MPs 1847–52|UK MPs 1852–57|Younger sons of barons |
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