GORDON, George Minister of Birnie parish, Naturalist and Geologist, Reverend Dr 2 3
- Born: 23 July 1801
- Baptised: 6 August 1801, Urquhart parish, Moray, Scotland 3
- Marriage (1): STEPHEN, Anna on 20 March 1834 in Elgin parish, Moray, Scotland 1
- Died: 12 December 1893, Braebirnie, Elgin, Moray, Scotland
User ID: G265.
General Notes:
"GORDON
GEORGE
WILLIAM GORDON/MARGT. ANDERSON
M
06/08/1801
144 20 / 307
URQUHART"
from Births and Baptisms 3
George married Anna STEPHEN on 20 March 1834 in Elgin parish, Moray, Scotland.1 (Anna STEPHEN was born about 1810 and died on 9 December 1889.)
Marriage Notes:
"GORDON
GEORGE
ANNA STEPHEN/
20/03/1834
127 20 / 64
BIRNIE"
"GORDON
GEORGE
ANNA STEPHEN/
20/03/1834
135 90 / 119
ELGIN"
from Index of Marriages
(at Birnie in 1832)
"George Gordon, bom 23rd July 1801 Son of William G- min. of Urquhart (Elgin), and grandson of Joseph Anderson; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (3rd April 1819); licen. by Presb. of Elgin 5th April 1825; pres. by Francis, Earl of Moray, before 16th Nov., and ord. 13th Dec. 1832; LL.D. (Marischal College, 19th Nov. 1859); dem. 30th Oct. 1889; died at Braebirnie, Elgin, 12th Dec. 1893. He was distinguished as a naturalist and geologist, and the fossil reptile Hyperodapedon Gordoni was discovered by him and named after him. He added Pinguicula alpina to the list of British flora. Professor Cooper said of him:'He has been a living example of how science can subsist with faith, and how the active mind and the cultivated intellect can flourish in a Scottish manse.'
He marr. 20th March 1834, Anna (died 9th Dec. 1889), second daugh. of James Stephen of Bruceland, Elgin, M.D., and had issue - Jane Anne, born 16th Dec.1835; Anna Maria, born 23rd Dec.1837 (marr. William Gordon, min. of Braemar); John William, banker, Madras, born 3rd Oct. 1840, died in London, 5th April 1900; Margaret, born 27th Sept. 1842 (marr. Captain Edward Cooke), died at Allahabad, India, 22nd Sept. 1876; James Lewis Joseph, captain in Army, born 13th Aug.1844, died at Nani-Tal, India, 7th May 1886; George Henry, merchant, London, born 11th June 1846, died 17th June 1920; Stephen, merchant, Smyrna, born 6th March 1850; Robertson Barclay, Procurator - Fiscal of Moray, born 28th July 1858. Publications Collectanea for a Flora of Moray (Elgin, 1839);'A Fauna of the Province of Moray'; (The Zoologist, [1844-61], ii. 421, 502, 551, x. 3454, 3480, 3678, xi. 3783, xii. 4300, 4421, 4453, xix. 7663; 'On the Geology of the Lower or Northern Part of the Province of Moray'; (Edin. New Phil. Journ., new series, ix., 14-56) (1859); Wilson's Prehistoric Annals read with Reference to the Archeology of the Province of Moray (Elgin, 1864);'On the Hymenoptera of the Province of Moray'; (Scottish Naturalist, ix., 177-9 (1887) ; The Reptiliferous Sandstones of Elgin (Elgin, 1892); Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc.,xiii.).~[Dr Gordon of Birnie, by Thomas Wallace, Elgin Courant, 1917; Coope's The Church of Birnie (Elgin, 1891); Rampini's Moray and Nairn, 381-3; Memoir of Prof. Cooper, 31-35.]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1 4
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