Lord William Gordon

His younger brother was the controversial Lord George Gordon, notorious for the anti-Catholic riots named after him.

In the mid-1760s, Lord William had an affair with a married woman, Lady Sarah Bunbury, who had once been courted by King George III.

Lord William soon tired of his lover's incessant demands for attention, gifts and ceaseless entertainments and abandoned her.

Her husband refused to take her back, and Lady Sarah returned to her brother's house with her child, while her husband, Sir Charles, moved Parliament for a divorce on grounds of adultery, citing her elopement, not the birth of Louisa.

The affair with Lady Sarah ruined both hers and William's social reputation, and also his military and political career.

[4] William Conway Gordon entered services for the Bengal Army in 1815, belonging to the 53rd Native Infantry.

William Conway Gordon (1798–1882) while he was A.D.C. to Sir Peregrine Maitland in Madras