GORDON, William Alexander RC Priest, Very Reverend Dean ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

"Christian's brother, William Gordon, was also a priest (they had five other siblings who did not survive childhood) and he is occasionally referred to in Carmichael's letters.William Gordon was educated at Aquhorties and Valladolid and was ordained in February 1831. He spent much of his career at St Andrew's, Glasgow, before moving to Greenock, as detailed in letter five. He died on 15 December 1880, aged seventy-three."

from My Dear Nephew by Lisa Curry

In 1854 William Gordon baptised in his Greenock parish of St Mary's Patrick Downie, son of a labourer and later to become a talented landscape painter. ^{2 3}