36 ALEXANDER GORDON, THE ANTIQUARY. 



and effigies of the veritable antiquary himself, painted by his own 

 hand, and which wonld now be a prized treasure in any archfeological 

 gallery of the Old World or the New. 



But no descendants of the author of the Itinerarium are now 

 known in South Carolina, of whom to inquire after the portrait of 

 their famed ancestor ; though the slight traces still recoverable seem to 

 indicate that they prospered. From an historical sketch of the St, 

 Andrew's Society of Charleston, which accompanies its printed rules, 

 the office-bearers and members can be traced from its foundation. 

 Assuming the Alexander Gordon of 1740-48, of the St. Andrew's 

 Club, to be the antiquary himself, his son's name does not appear 

 among its members, though the Gordons of those old colonial days 

 are othei-wise well represented : in 1757 by the Hon. Captain John 

 Gordon ; in 1761 by the Rev. Charles Gordon ; and in 1765 by the 

 Right Hon. Lord Adam Gordon, with others of later date, on to 

 1825, when another Alexander Gordon appears, — possibly the grand- 

 son or some later descendant of the antiquary,— who was secretary 

 from 1828 to 18'33. He then filled the office of treasurer till 1844, 

 when he is found holding both offices. Thereafter he acted as secre- 

 tary till 1850, when the name disappears from among the Society's 

 office-bearers till 1859, at which year Alexander Gordon is elected 

 first vice-president, and so continues till 1864, when he must have 

 been removed by retirement or — if it be the same individual, — by 

 death, at an advanced age. But, recent as that date is, the Southern 

 War and all the troubles which followed have wrought many changes ; 

 and so far, my informant writes me, he has failed, in this and other 

 cases, " to trace any connection with the descendants of Sandie Gordon 

 of Oldbuck veneration." 



John Troup, who in 1754 witnessed the antiquary's will, may be 

 assumed to be the attorney-at-law of that name admitted to the 

 Union Kilwinning Lodge of Ancient Free Masons in 1762, — the 

 year before his marriage to Frances Charlotte Gordon, whose brother 

 had joined the same Lodge a few years earlier. John Troup appears 

 to have been a popular and prosperous man. On the reorganisation 

 of the St. Andrew's Club, under its later name of the St. Andrew's 

 Society, in 1787, after the War of Independence, he was chosen 

 assistant-treasiirer, and from 1790 to 1794 he filled the office of vice- 

 president. He was distinguished in like manner by the brethren of 

 the Kilwinning Lodge. From an old record recovered among the 



