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.
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.
Stepney was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Stepney district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
William Evans-Gordon
…accompanying the viceroy in the princely states. After leaving the army, Evans Gordon returned to Britain and in 1900 was elected as Conservative MP for Stepney on an "anti-alien platform". As a result of the pogroms in Eastern Europe, Jews were arriving in increasing numbers in Britain to stay or en route for…