Naval officer. Born Aberdeenshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1853 until his death. 75 years in the navy, he was possibly the model for C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB
Commemorated ati
Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role...
Other Subjects
George Robert Webb
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Royal Engineers
A corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces. Known as 'sappers' apparently from the French 'sappe' meaning 'spadework' or '...
1 memorial
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Col. Richard Deane
From Gloucestershire, a distant relation of Oliver Cromwell. Supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. He was a General at Sea, major-general. One of the Commissioners for Charles...
1 memorial
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