Lord Adam Gordon (British Army officer)

Lord Adam Gordon (British Army officer)

General Lord Adam Gordon (c. 1726 – 13 August 1801) was a Scottish soldier and general, a younger son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon and Lady Henrietta Mordaunt.

He entered the army as an ensign in the 2nd Dragoons in 1741, and attended Eton from 1742 to 1743. That year he was promoted lieutenant, and in 1746 became a captain of the 18th Regiment of Foot.cite book | editor=Handley, Stuart | title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | chapter=Gordon, Lord Adam (c.1726–1801) | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11013 | accessdate=2006-09-21]

He was returned for Aberdeenshire in 1754, and was made lieutenant-colonel of the 3rd Foot Guards in 1756. He supported the recently fallen Duke of Newcastle during the parliamentary inquiry into his ministry's role in the loss of Minorca. In 1758, he took part in the descent on Cherbourg, and fought bravely at St. Cast, leading the grenadier company of the Guards as part of the rearguard there.cite web | url=http://www2.lib.uoguelph.ca/resources/ebooks/Letters_from_Levant_Scans/Letters_from_the_Levant.doc | title=Letters From the Levant | author=Galt, John | year=1813 | accessdate=2006-09-21]

Gordon continued in Parliament after the 1761 election as a supporter of the rising Lord Bute. On 19 January 1763, he was made colonel of the 66th Regiment of Foot, and the next year, toured the West Indies, the American colonies, and Canada, looking to invest in land. He returned to England in 1765.

On 2 September 1767, he married Jean, Dowager Duchess of Atholl, and laid aside his American projects. He left Parliament in 1768, but returned again for Kincardineshire in 1774. He had, by 1772, been promoted major-general.

On 27 December 1775, Gordon was appointed colonel of the 26th Regiment of Foot, but he did not receive a command during the American Revolution. A zealous supporter of Lord North's government, he was appointed governor of Tynemouth in 1778 and colonel of The Royal Scots on 9 May 1782. Unhappy with the terms of the Treaty of Paris and the fate of the loyalists, he supported the new ministry of Pitt in 1783. He left Parliament in 1788. Gordon was appointed Commander-in-Chief in Scotland in 1789, promoted general in 1793, and resigned Tynemouth for the governorship of Edinburgh Castle in 1796. He was replaced as Commander-in-Chief in 1798 and retired to his seat in Kincardineshire, where he died in 1801.

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