Hugh Gordon (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Hugh Mackay Gordon (1760 – 12 March 1823) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Gordon joined the British Army in 1775[1] and served in the American War of Independence being taken as a Prisoner of war during the Siege of Pensacola in 1781.

[2] He was appointed Inspector of militia in Jersey in 1799 and joined the staff in Madeira in 1811.

[3] He was also Colonel of the 16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment from 1816 to 1823.

[3] There is a memorial to him in St James's Church, Piccadilly.

A memorial to Hugh Gordon in St James's Church, Piccadilly.