GORDON BOYS' HOME 



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GORDON RIOTS 



various parts of the European con- 

 tinent, in the Isle of Man, and in 

 America. In 1902 the cup was won 

 by an Englishman, S. F. Edge, 

 the race being run over the road 

 from Paris to Innsbruck. 



There is also a Gordon Bennett 

 cup for an international air race, 

 the first contest being held at 

 Reims in 1909. The first post-war 

 race took place in France on Sept. 

 28, 1920, being won by the French 

 airman, Sadi-Lecointe. 



Gordon Boys' Home, THE. 

 British institution for the training 

 of homeless and destitute boys. 

 It is situated at West End, near 

 Brookwood, Surrey. Erected as 

 the national memorial to General 

 Gordon after his death in 1885, 

 it accommodates 250 boys, chosen 

 from the homeless and destitute, 

 between the ages of about 14 

 and 15, and gives them train- 

 ing up to the age of 17 or there- 

 abouts, which will fit them alike 

 for civil life in Great Britain or its 



selves. The offices are 5, York 

 Street, St. James's, London, S.W. 

 There are homes, run on similar 

 lines, in other parts of England, 

 e.g. Nottingham. 



Gordon - Gumming, ROUA- 

 LEYTN GEORGE (1820-66). British 

 traveller and big game hunter. 

 Born March 15, 

 1820, and edu- 

 cated at Eton, 

 he went for a 

 short period to 

 India, where he 

 served in the 

 Madras Light 

 Cavalry. Re- 

 turning to 

 Scotland, h e 

 afterwards em- 

 barked on a 

 hunting expedition in Bechuana- 

 land and the Limpopo valley, 

 an account of which he has given 

 in Five Years of a Hunter's 

 Life in the Far Interior of South 

 Africa, 1850. The lion hunter, as he 



R. G. Gordon- 



Cumming, 

 British traveller 



colonies, and for service in the was called, died at Fort Augustus, 



army, navy, or mercantile marine. 



To gain admission a boy must be 

 really necessitous and free from 

 such physical and mental infirmity 

 as would disqualify him for service 

 as stated above. Free admission is 

 given to such number of boys as can 

 be provided for out of the general 

 income of the home. The lads, who 

 are under military discipline, besides 

 receiving their general education, Abercromby 

 are trained as engineers, tailors, gathered a 

 shoemakers, carpenters, saddlers, 

 clerks, bakers, and gardeners, while 

 others, trained as musicians, are 

 enlisted into the regimental bands. 



During the Great War over 1,000 

 ex-pupils served in the various 

 arms, 151 of whom were killed in 

 action or died of wounds, 18 were 

 promoted to commissions for ser- 

 vice in the field, and 31 were pre- 

 sented with decorations or men- 

 tioned in dispatches. A new school 

 workshop is being erected as a 

 memorial to those who fell in the 

 war, part of the labour of which 

 was provided by the pupils them- 



Inverness-shire, March 25, 1866. 



Constance Frederica Gordon- 

 Gumming (b. 1837), a sister of the 

 above, was a well-known traveller, 

 who recorded her experiences in a 

 series of books that enjoyed con- 

 siderable popularity. 



Gordon Highlanders. Regi- 

 ment of the British army. It was 

 raised in 1788, when Colonel Robert 



Gordon Highlanders' 

 badge 



Gordon Boys' Home. The boys drilling in front of the 

 West End Home, near Brookwood 



body of young 

 highlanders 

 together. In 

 1790 they pro- 

 ceeded to In- 

 dia, where 

 they remained 

 until 1804, 

 showing great 



gallantry at the siege of Seringa- 

 patam. Soon they became the 

 75th regiment of the line and, 

 later, the 1st battalion of the Gor- 

 don Highlanders. In 1794 the duke 

 of Gordon raised a regiment of 

 highlanders from among his tenants 

 in Aberdeenshire. 

 In his honour they 

 were called the 

 Gordon Highland- 

 ers, and became, 

 later, the 2nd bat- 

 talion of that regi- 

 111 e lit, and the 

 Hyill^l^lt^' 92nd of the line. 



The Gordons 

 were in Holland in 

 1799 and distin-' 

 guished themseves 

 in Egypt in 1801. 

 They fought under 

 Sir John Moore at 

 Corunna, and 

 under Wellington 



at Vittoria and in the Pyrenees. At 

 Quatre Bras the 92nd drove the 

 French from their positions, and at 

 Waterloo routed a solid column of 

 French infantry and captured 2,000 

 prisoners. It was on this occasion 

 that the Gordons seized the stirrups 

 of the Scots Greys and, shouting 

 " Scotland for Ever ! " ran with 

 the cavalry towards the foe. 



The Gordons took part in quell- 

 ing the Indian Mutiny, marched 

 with Lord Roberts from Kabul to 

 Kandahar, led the way across the 

 Egyptian trenches at Tel-el-Kebir, 

 and in the Chitral campaign helped 

 to storm the Malakand Pass. They 

 won fresh glories at Dargai, while 

 in the S. African War the 2nd 

 battalion was among the defenders 

 of Ladysmith, and the 1st fought 

 at Magersfontein and at Paarde- 

 berg. In the Great War the 1st 

 battalion were in the retreat from 

 Mons, the 2nd at the first battle of 

 Ypres, also, with the 6th battalion 

 (Territorial), at Neuve Chapelle, 

 1915. The Gordons fought at Fes- 

 tubert and Loos, 1915, at Arras, 

 1917, and in many other leading 

 battles. The 4th Gordons, at- 

 tached to the 51st division, took a 

 leading part in the capture of 

 Famars, the last battle of the 

 Great War in which that division 

 participated. The regimental depot 

 is at Aberdeen. 



Gordon Riots. Disturbances 

 which took place in London in 

 June, 1780. In that year Sir George 

 Savile introduced a bill to enable 

 Roman Catholics who abjured the 

 temporal sovereignty of the pope 

 to purchase and inherit land ; the 

 bill also proposed to give a certain 

 liberty to their priests. It became 

 law as regards England, but a 

 proposal to extend it to Scotland 

 was violently opposed and was 

 abandoned. 



In England certain Protestants 

 formed an association to work for 

 the repeal of the Act. Lord George 

 Gordon (q.v. ) took the lead, and at 

 the head of about 60,000 people 

 marched with a petition to West- 

 minster on June 2. They forced 

 peers and members of Parliament 

 to shout No Popery, and to wear 

 blue cockades, made their way into 

 the lobbies of the Houses of Parlia- 

 ment, and when the military ar- 

 rived wrecked the chapels attached 

 to the Bavarian and Sardinian em- 

 bassies. On the 4th they renewed 

 their attacks, and soon had a good 

 part of London at their mercy. 

 Prisons were broken open, numer- 

 ous fires were started, and the 

 Bank of England was attacked. 

 On the 7th George III called a 

 meeting of his ministers, and when 

 they hesitated he himself ordered 

 the military to act. The riots were 



