Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet, FRS (21 October 1806 – 29 July 1876) was a barrister and artist.

Life

He was the only son of

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and his wife Isabella Julia Levina Bennet, daughter of Richard Henry Alexander Bennet. Gordon entered Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1823 and was

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in 1827, placed ahead of Thomas Turner (1804–1883),

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, Augustus De Morgan and

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. He was made 2nd Smith's prizeman, behind Turner, also becoming a Fellow of his college that year. He received an

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in 1830. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1828 and called to the bar in 1831. He became a

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in 1830. He was a Justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for the

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. In 1851, Gordon succeeded to his father's title. He became also 13th laird of Knockespock. The lairdship was under an entail, and he inherited it on the 1854 death of James Adam Gordon. Gordon died suddenly, at Blackhall,

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, in 1876. At his death, the baronetcy of Gordon of Northcourt became extinct.

Family

In 1839 Gordon married Lady Mary Agnes Blanche Ashburnham, daughter of

George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, KG, GCH, FSA (25 December 1760 – 27 October 1830) was a British peer. He was the son of the 2nd Earl of Ashburnham and the former Elizabeth Crowley, being styled Viscount St Asaph from birth, ...

and Charlotte Ashburnham. They had a daughter, Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon (died 1926): she married General Robert William Disney Leith (1819–1892). She was a writer and translator, publishing as Mrs. Disney Leith. Gordon was an engraver. He produced joint work with his sister, Julia Emily Gordon.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Henry Percy 1806 births 1876 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Senior Wranglers