Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet, FRS (21 October 1806 – 29 July 1876) was a

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and artist.

Life

He was the only son of Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Baronet and his wife Isabella Julia Levina Bennet, daughter of Richard Henry Alexander Bennet. Gordon entered

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in 1823 and was

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in 1827, placed ahead of Thomas Turner (1804–1883),

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and

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. He was made 2nd Smith's prizeman, behind Turner, also becoming a Fellow of his college that year. He received an

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in 1830. He was admitted to

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in 1828 and

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in 1831. He became a

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in 1830. He was a Justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for the

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. In 1851, Gordon succeeded to his father's title. He became also 13th laird of Knockespock. The lairdship was under an entail, and he inherited it on the 1854 death of James Adam Gordon. Gordon died suddenly, at Blackhall,

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, in 1876. At his death, the baronetcy of Gordon of Northcourt became extinct.

Family

In 1839 Gordon married Lady Mary Agnes Blanche Ashburnham, daughter of

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and Charlotte Ashburnham. They had a daughter, Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon (died 1926): she married General Robert William Disney Leith (1819–1892). She was a writer and translator, publishing as

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. Gordon was an engraver. He produced joint work with his sister,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Henry Percy 1806 births 1876 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Senior Wranglers