Biography

Gilbert Gordon. (-bef. 1794) (aka. Collector Gordon)

Of Halleaths and/or Lochmaben. Married (1758) to Margaret Stewart. Sometime Collector of Excise in Drumfries. He also had an epistle On the Cultivation of Taste published in the first volume of Donaldson's Collection of Original Poems by Scotch Gentlemen (1761).

A Miss Patricia Heron Gordon (d. 1821), "youngest lawfull d. of deceased Gilbert Gordon of Halleaths, p. of Lochmaben, Drumfriesshire" was married to William Maule (1771-1852), 1st Baron Panmure, on November 24, 1794.

Life with James Boswell:

Boswell saw a bit of Gordon and his wife at Dumfries on October 5 and 6, 1762. Boswell described him as "a lively little man of a cosntant flow of vivacity and not so much feeling or depth of sentiment as to render him susceptible of unhappiness, or rather misery;".

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