Gordon alexander biography
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Having returned from Indonesia with thousands of words of mostly jargon, sprawled over three different devices, two note pads and some toilet paper, Gordon has finally pieced it all together in fairly readable English in the form of his second book. Following the release of The Nepali Flat, Gordon packed in his job to become a full-time writer, taking probably the world’s largest pay-cut in the process. He is currently working his way through Chile and Argentina, with plans of traveling north through Bolivia and into Peru for his third book. Gordon was born in tropical Northern Australia to a pair of intrepid adventurers that soon began dragging him around the world. He spent four years at boarding school in Scotland, partook in a brief yet unspectacular stint at the University of London, studying Arabic, before transferring to the University of Jordan (in Jordan). Six months later he gained his first professional writing experience working as a sports journalist in the Gulf. He is off to see the world in 2018, starting with South America, with plans of trekking Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, the Canadian Rockies and pretty much anything that forms a bump on the earth’s surface. Please get in touch, he would love to hear from you! There are newsletter and contact forms here: www.g
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Gordon, Alexander (1587-1654)
GORDON, ALEXANDER (1587–1654), of Earlston, covenanter, was the eldest son of John Gordon of Airds and Earlston, and Mary, daughter of James Chalmers of Gadgirth in Ayrshire. His parents were married in 1585. The Gordons of Earlston in Kirkcudbrightshire were a cadet branch of the Gordons of Lochinvar. Gordon's great-grandfather, Alexander Gordon of Airds (1479-1580), was one of the first to introduce the principles of the reformation into Galloway. He read Wycliffe's New Testament to his tenants and others in the wood of Airds. He had a family, it is said, of eleven sons and nine daughters. He yoked ten of his sons to the plough on Christmas day, made the youngest his driver, and himself guided the share, by which means he avoided the confiscation of his cattle for profaning the feast.
Gordon was served heir to his father in the lands of Earlston and others on 23 Oct. 1628 (Retours Kirkcudbright, No. 175), and to his grandmother, Elizabeth Gordon of Blaiket, Dumfriesshire, one of the eleven daughters and heirs portioners of John Gordon of Blaiket, on 29 July 1634 (ib. No. 207). In 1623 he was indicted before the justiciary court for usurping the king's authority by apprehending and det