GORDON, Alexander ¹

  General Notes:

"The famous Jacobite, General John Gordon of Glenbucket, had a son in the Russian Navy."

from House of Gordon

'The fourth son, Alexander, was killed while fighting in the Russian service against the Turks in the Black Sea. In 1740 old Glenbucket wrote to Admiral Thomas Gordon, the Governor of Kronstadt, about '' my son Sandie.'

from The Gay Gordons ^{1 2}