About Alexander Gordon
Lived 1815 – 1903 (aged 88). Alexander Gordon was a politician.
Alexander Gordon (1815 – 12 December 1903) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born in London to solicitor Alexander Gordon. He became a London barrister in 1841, focusing on equity law. He married Annie Chambers. He was also a Queen's Counsel, and from 1862 was chancellor of the Sydney Diocese. In 1883 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, but he retired to England in late 1885 and his seat was vacated in August 1886. Gordon died at Pucklechurch in Gloucestershire in 1903. A daughter Harriet Eliza Gordon (1853–1910) married Rev. Stephen Henry Childe (1844–1923) on 22 November 1886. Their son Vere Gordon Childe was an eminent archaeologist. A son Alexander Gordon, later Sir Alexander, was a Supreme Court judge.
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Who was Alexander Gordon?
Australian politician
When was Alexander Gordon born?
Alexander Gordon was born on 14 October 1815.
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Alexander Gordon died on 12 December 1903.
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Alexander Gordon was a politician.
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