John Thomson Gordon
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John Thomson Gordon FRSE was a Scottish advocate who served as Rector of Marischal College 1849-50 and Sheriff of Aberdeen 1847-48 and Edinburgh 1848–1865.
Gordon was born at 14 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh: the ground floor and basement property to the left hand side of the picture
Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, was a Scottish advocate, judge and politician.
John Thomson Gordon
…1847-48 and Edinburgh 1848–1865. He was born on 19 March 1813 at 14 Buccleuch Place in Edinburgh the son of Dr John Gordon. His mother was the sister of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd. The family moved to 19 Castle Street in the New Town when he was five. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy then studied law at the University of…
Lord Rutherfurd, c. 1852
Lauriston Castle
Portrait of Lord Rutherfurd, by Sir John Watson Gordon, c. 1851
Grave in the Dean Cemetery