James Gordon

James Gordon (c. 1758–1822) was a British barrister, politician and plantation owner on Antigua and St Vincent.

Life He was the son of James Brebner and Anne Lavington (or Mary), born on Antigua. His father adopted the surname Gordon in 1768.

Gordon entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1775, at age 17; he had been educated at Winchester College, or possibly Harrow School. The Moor Place estate had belonged to his great-uncle James Gordon (died 1768, of Antigua and Moor Place, 9th of Knockespock), whose will had caused his father to change name to James Brebner Gordon.

Plantations Gordon left extensive slave-run plantations to his son James Adam, in Antigua, St Vincent and St Kitts, and around 500 enslaved people.

Family Gordon married in 1789 Harriet or Harriot Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796) the brewer and politician.

The couple's eldest son was James Adam Gordon (1791–1854), Member of Parliament for Tregony in the years before the Great Reform Act.