Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Adam Lindsay Gordon was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporar
Gordon, c. 1860
Gordon riding Outlaw, 1863
Gordon's Leap at Blue Lake, 1864
Monument erected at Blue Lake in 1887, commemorating Gordon's Leap
Adam Gordon of Auchindoun
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Adam Gordon of Auchindoun was a Scottish knight, younger brother of the Earl of Huntly and military leader during the Marian civil war on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots in north west Scotland. In Scot
Adam Lindsay Gordon
…Cheltenham, where he was baptised. He was the son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon and Harriet Gordon, his first cousin, both of whom were descended from Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, of the ballad "Edom o Gordon". Captain Gordon had retired from the Bengal cavalry and taught Hindustani. His mother's family had owned slaves in the…
Ruins of Auchindoun Castle