Robert Gordon (1786–1864) was a British landowner and politician.

Life

He was the only son of William Gordon, a West Indies planter, of Auchendolly in

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, and his wife Anna Nash, daughter of Stephen Nash of Bristol, and was educated at

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from 1799 to 1803. He entered

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in 1803, and matriculated at

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in 1804, graduating B.A. in 1808 and M.A. in 1824. Gordon succeeded his father in 1802, inheriting the West Indies plantation, and estates in Sherborne, Dorset and Cricklade, Wiltshire. He was a cornet (1805) and lieutenant (1808) in the Dorset yeomanry and a captain in the Wiltshire yeomanry (1816). Appointed

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for 1811–12, Gordon served as MP for Wareham from 1812 to 1818. He was then MP for

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from 1818 to 1837 and for New Windsor from 1837 to 1841. He was a commissioner to the Board of Control from 1832 to 1833 and joint

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from 1833 to 1834 and from 1835 to 1839. He was

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from 1839 to 1841. Gordon died in 1864.

Family

Gordon married his cousin Elizabeth Anne, the daughter of Charles Westley Coxe of Kemble House, Gloucestershire.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Robert 1786 births 1864 deaths UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 British landowners Members of Lincoln's Inn Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cricklade Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Windsor Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Wareham 19th-century British businesspeople People educated at Eton College English barristers