Henry Percy Gordon

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

[1] Gordon entered Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1823 and was senior wrangler in 1827, placed ahead of Thomas Turner (1804–1883),[2] Anthony Cleasby, Augustus De Morgan and William Hopkins.

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

[3] The lairdship was under an entail, and he inherited it on the 1854 death of James Adam Gordon.

[3] They had a daughter, Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon (died 1926): she married General Robert William Disney Leith (1819–1892).

Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet, 1862 photograph
Memorial to Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet, in St Peter's Church, Shorwell , Isle of Wight