A Memorial to the late General Gordon was unveiled on Thursday in the Queen's Park, Southampton, which town was the General's residence when in England, and where his sisters still reside. It consists mainly of a cluster of polished red Aberdeen columns nearly twenty feet high, and stands on a mound about five feet high. The columns are surmounted by a richly-carved capital, and the whole is finished by an ornamental cross, on the front of which is dove with olive branch, and on the back a passion flower. Beside the foliated carvings on the pedestal are the crest and motto of the late General, the Southampton Borough Arms, General Gordon's name in Chinese characters, copied from his visiting card as a Chinese mandarin, and an Egyptian landscape, introducing a camel, the Pyramids, etc. The inscription, which occupies the four sides of the lower part of the pedestal, alludes to the hero in his threefold character as soldier, administrator, and philanthropist; mentions those parts of the world which are most intimately connected with his career; and closes with a quotation from his last letter to his sister:—"l am quite happy, thank God, and, like Lawrence, I have tried to do my duty." [Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service - Wednesday 21 October 1885, p.7]
A Memorial to the late General Gordon was unveiled on Thursday in the Queen's Park, Southampton, which town was the General's residence when in England, and where his sisters still reside. It consists mainly of a cluster of polished red Aberdeen columns nearly twenty feet high, and stands on a mound about five feet high. The columns are surmounted by a richly-carved capital, and the whole is finished by an ornamental cross, on the front of which is dove with olive branch, and on the back a passion flower. Beside the foliated carvings on the pedestal are the crest and motto of the late General, the Southampton Borough Arms, General Gordon's name in Chinese characters, copied from his visiting card as a Chinese mandarin, and an Egyptian landscape, introducing a camel, the Pyramids, etc. The inscription, which occupies the four sides of the lower part of the pedestal, alludes to the hero in his threefold character as soldier, administrator, and philanthropist; mentions those parts of the world which are most intimately connected with his career; and closes with a quotation from his last letter to his sister:—"l am quite happy, thank God, and, like Lawrence, I have tried to do my duty." [Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service - Wednesday 21 October 1885, p.7]
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Family Members
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Gen Sir Henry William Gordon
1818–1887
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Elizabeth Maria Gordon Dunlop
1820–1883
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Mary Augusta Gordon
1822–1893
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Henrietta Charlotte Gordon Bayly
1823–1880
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Gen. Samuel Enderby Gordon
1824–1883
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Wilhelmina Harriet Gordon Anderson
1828–1899
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Emily Georgina Gordon
1829–1843
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William Augustus Gordon
1831–1863
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Charles George Gordon
1833–1885
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Frederick Walcott Robert Gordon
1836–1872
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Helen Clarke Gordon Moffitt
1838–1919
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