William Gordon - British People

British People

  • William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen (1679–1746), Scottish peer, Tory politician and Jacobite
  • William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure (c. 1672–1716), Scottish Jacobite
  • William Gordon, Lord Strathnaver (1683–1720), MP for Tain Burghs, judged ineligible to sit because he was the eldest son of a Scottish peer
  • William Gordon (Bishop of Aberdeen) (died 1577), last of the pre-Reformation bishops of Aberdeen owing allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church
  • William Gordon (Bishop of Leeds) (1831–1911), English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
  • William Gordon (physician) (1800–1849), physician and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
  • William Gordon (Royal Navy officer) (1785–1858), Scottish vice-admiral, naval commander and politician
  • William Eagleson Gordon (1866–1941), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • William Gordon (British Army officer) (1736–1816), British general and politician
  • William Gordon (Chelsea MP), British Member of Parliament for Chelsea, 1874–1880
  • Lord William Gordon (1744–1823), MP for Elginshire, Inverness-shire, and Horsham
  • Sir William Gordon, 1st Baronet, MP for Sutherland, Cromartyshire and Nairnshire
  • William Gordon (Portsmouth politician) (1726–1798), MP for Portsmouth
  • William Gordon (died 1776) (c. 1735–1776), MP for Rochester
  • Sir William Duff-Gordon, 2nd Baronet (1772–1823), known as William Gordon until 1815, Scottish politician
  • William McD. Gordon (1899–1950), Provost of Peterhead, 1946–1950

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