| 词条 | Alexander Gordon (Northern Ireland politician) |
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Robert Gisborne Gordon GBE DSO PC (NI) (28 July 1882 – 23 April 1967) was a Unionist Member and Senator in the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Family backgroundSir Alexander was born in County Down on 28 July 1882, the son of Ada Austen Eyre and Alexander Hamilton Miller Haven Gordon,[1] DL of Florida Manor, Killinchy and Delamont, Killyleagh. Florida Manor, a late 17th-century estate, described by Sir Charles Brett as a "rather mysterious house", came to the Gordons by the marriage, in 1755, of Robert Gordon to Alice Arbuckle, heiress to the Crawfords of Crawfordsburn. The Gordons were hitherto wine and spirit merchants but the progeny of this marriage, David, established Gordon and Company bankers, later to become Belfast Banking Company.[2] David Gordon went on to marry a cousin of his mother's – Mary Crawford, of Crawfordsburn – in 1789. Florida Manor was sold in 1910. Sir Alexander inherited Delamont from his father. During his residence there his main legacy to the house was to demolish the redundant servants' wing.[2] CareerSir Alexander was educated at Rugby School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[3] He was seriously wounded whilst serving with the Royal Irish Regiment during the First World War, but continued as a soldier until 1942. From 1929 to 1949, he was the Unionist member for East Down at Stormont.[3] During this period he served as government Chief Whip. He was also Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Finance from 1937.[3] On 13 June 1940, however, he resigned this position[3] as a result of, as he put it, the Northern Irish government being "quite unfitted to sustain the people in the ordeal [the Belfast Blitz] we have to face." In 1950, Sir Alexander entered the upper House as a Senator, from 1951–1961 he was Leader of the Senate and from 1961–1964 he was Speaker of that house.[3] He resigned this seat in 1964. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, the most senior grade in the Order of the British Empire,[4] ranking below a baronet in the order of precedence. LegacyGordon and his wife had no children. On his death, in 1967,[3] the estate of Delamont was held on trust by Gordon's great-nephew Archibald Arundel Pugh (changed to Gordon-Pugh by deed poll in 1968). He sold the estate in 1985 to Belfast Education and Library Board. Archibald Gordon-Pugh died in 1995; his son, Archie Gordon-Pugh, died at Saintfield in December 2010. References1. ^The Peerage Person Page – 45735 {{s-start}}{{s-par|ni}}{{s-new | constituency}}{{s-ttl2. ^1 History of Delamont Estate 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|title=Stormont Biographies |author=David Boothroyd |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/biographies.html |work=Politico’s Guide to the History of British Political Parties |accessdate=2 February 2015}} 4. ^http://www.thepeerage.com/p45735.htm#i457348 | title = Member of Parliament for East Down | years = 1929–1949 }}{{s-aft | after = Brian Faulkner }}{{s-off}}{{s-bef | before=Milne Barbour }}{{s-ttl | title=Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Ministry of Finance | years = 1937–1940 }}{{s-vac | next = Maynard Sinclair }}{{succession box | title=Speaker of the Senate of Northern Ireland | before= Roland Nugent | after= 2nd Baron Glentoran | years= 1961–1964}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Sir Alexander}} 16 : 1882 births|1967 deaths|Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst|High Sheriffs of Down|Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland|Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1929–33|Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1933–38|Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1938–45|Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1945–49|Members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland|Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1949–53|Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1953–57|Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1957–61|Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1961–65|Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for County Down constituencies|Ulster Unionist Party members of the Senate of Northern Ireland |
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