The St James's Gazette was a London evening newspaper published from 1880 to 1905. It was founded by the Conservative Henry Hucks Gibbs, later Baron Aldenham, a director of the Bank of England 1853–19
A youthful H.H. Gibbs, founding proprietor of the St James's Gazette. Miniature portrait by Magdalena Ross (1801–1874)
"He created The Pall Mall Gazette" Caricature of Frederick Greenwood by 'Ape' (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, June 1880
Major Sir William Eden Evans Gordon was a British politician, military officer, and diplomat. He was a Member of Parliament who had served as a military diplomat in India.
St James's Gazette
…prompted partially by the Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire One of the most vociferous and outspoken anti-alien critics of the day was Major William Evans-Gordon, MP for Stepney, whose "restrictionist" rabble-rousing activities with the British Brothers' League led to the Aliens Act 1905. Evans-Gordon's 1903…
Vanity Fair caricature by Spy (Leslie Ward), 11 May 1905. The caption reads "The Alien immigrant".
A havildar of the 1st Central India Horse (Mayne's Horse), 1886
Taglang La, a mountain pass in Ladakh where Evans-Gordon was Joint Commissioner.
Laxmi Vilas Palace, Badora, built in 1890 by the Maharaja of Baroda, Sayajirao Gaekwad III. William Evans-Gordon accompanied the Maharaja on a tour of Europe in 1894.