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Archibald Gordon (diplomat)
Archibald Gordon may refer to: * Archibald Gordon (British Army officer) (1812–1886), Scottish inspector-general of hospitals * Ronald Gordon (Archibald Ronald McDonald Gordon, 1927–2015), British Anglican bishop * Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1913–1984), Scottish writer, broadcaster and peer * Archibald Gordon (missionary) (1882–1967), who served in India through the Canadian Baptist Ministries *Archibald Alexander Gordon Major (United Kingdom), Major Archibald Alexander Gordon alias Major Gordon (3 September 1867 – 12 August 1949) Order of the British Empire, CBE, Royal Victorian Order, MVO, Order of Saint John (chartered 1888), KStJ, Justice of the peace, JP ... (1867–1949), Scottish soldier See also * {{hndis, Gordon, Archibald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Gordon (British Army Officer)
Archibald Gordon, M.D. (1812–3 August 1886) was a Scottish military surgeon and inspector-general of hospitals. Life Gordon studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MD in 1834. He entered the army as assistant-surgeon in 1836, served with the 53rd regiment in the Sutlej campaign of 1846, and in the Punjab campaign of 1848–9 with the 24th regiment. He became a surgeon in 1848, and surgeon-major in 1854. In the Crimea War he was Principal Medical Officer of the 2nd division throughout the siege of Sebastopol, and was made deputy-inspector-general of hospitals (1856), C.B., and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 1857 he served as the principal medical officer with the expeditionary force to China in the Second Opium War and in the Oudh campaign of 1858-9 The Central India Campaign was one of the last series of actions in the Indian rebellion of 1857. A small British and Indian Army (from the Bombay Presidency) overcame a disunited collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Gordon
Archibald Ronald McDonald Gordon (19 March 1927 – 8 August 2015) was a British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Portsmouth from 1975 to 1984. He was the Bishop at Lambeth from 1984 and, additionally, the Bishop to the Forces from 1985. He ended his career as sub-dean at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1991 to 1996. Early years Gordon was the son of the diplomat Sir Archibald Gordon CMG and his wife Dorothy, the daughter of Charles Silvester Horne, MP: his great-grandfather, Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy, was Master of the Rolls from 1907 until 1918. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford (organ scholar) BA 1950, MA 1952''Crockford's Clerical Directory'' (2002/03), p. 289 before studying for ordination at Cuddesdon College. Ordained ministry After a curacy in the East End of London, Gordon returned to Ripon College Cuddesdon as chaplain in 1955. After four years he moved to Birmingham, firstly as a parish priest and then as a canon reside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess Of Aberdeen And Temair
Archibald Victor Dudley Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (9 July 1913 – 7 September 1984), styled Lord Archibald Gordon from 1965 to 1974, was a Scottish writer, broadcaster, and peer. The second son of Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Cécile Elizabeth Drummond, on his death in 1984 he was succeeded in the marquessate, and his other titles, by his younger brother Alastair. Education He attended Harrow School. Career He was an assistant secretary with the Council for the Protection of Rural England, 1936–1940. He joined the BBC Monitoring Service in 1940. From 1946 to 1972 he worked for the BBC Radio Talks Department. He produced ''The Week in Westminster'' as well as party political and election broadcasts between 1946 and 1966. He was head of Radio Talks and Documentaries from 1967 to 1972. On the death of his elder brother on 13 September 1974 he succeeded him as Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Gordon (missionary)
Archibald Gordon (born 1882; died 1967) was a Canadian Baptist missionary who served in India during 1913W. G. Carder, ''Hand to the Indian Plow: Volume One'', Carder, Hyderabad, 1976, Appendix II, p.11./ref>-1953 with Canadian Baptist Ministries.Jarold Knox Zeman, ''Costly vision: the Baptist pilgrimage in Canada'', Welch Publishing Company, Ontario, 1988, p.156./ref> Early life and studies Archibald Gordon was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1882 and went to Canada in 1907. He enrolled for graduate studies at the Brandon University, Brandon where he took a B.A. and a B.Th. in 1913. He later upgraded his academics by studying for a B.D. degree at the University of Toronto in 1947. Ecclesiastical career Gordon served as a Baptist missionary in India in Andhra Pradesh from 1913 to 1953. During the last decade of his presence in India, he became principal of the Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada during the period 1945-1952 following which the seminary council of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
