George Croughly Gordon

George Croughly Gordon (21 June 1850 – 20 August 1899) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played for the Scottish XI against England in the first representative match played in March 1870. He was a member of the British civil service before settling in Australia where he worked as a telegraph construction contractor.

Family Gordon was born in Kensington, London to Cosmo Gordon and Helen Hensley. His paternal grandfather was born near Tomintoul, Banffshire.

He was married to Mary Agnes Wallace and they had two sons:

Business career Gordon was a member of the Civil Service at the time of his appearance for "Scotland".

He later emigrated to Australia where, by 1884, he was in partnership with Matthew Moreton and others trading as "Gordon & Moreton", telegraph construction contractors. The firm was contracted to build the second section of the telegraph from Fairview, near Cooktown, Queensland to Cape York, for a distance of 168 miles, with work lasting from July 1884 to October 1886.

He died at the mining town of Cue, Western Australia on 20 August 1899.