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George William Gordon (c. 1820 – 23 October 1865) was a Jamaican businessman, magistrate and politician, one of two representatives to the Assembly from St. Thomas-in-the-East parish. He was a leading critic of the colonial government and the policies of Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre.
heroes. PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Andrew, near Mavis Bank DATE OF BIRTH: circa 1820s DATE OF DEATH: October 23, 1865. Born to a slave mother and a planter father who was attorney to several sugar estates in Jamaica, George William Gordon was self-educated and a landowner in the parish of St. Thomas.
Dec 12, 2014 · More than a decade earlier, George William Gordon, a founding director of the Jamaica Mutual Life Assurance Society, had proven his monumental honesty and compassionate concern for the needy when he filed a legal injunction preventing his fellow directors from winding up the company and thus avoiding paying death benefits resulting from the ...
There’s so much that could be said about George William Gordon – a large landowner, a shopkeeper, a produce dealer, a preacher, a politician, a social worker, and a philanthropist. He was a true advocate for the suffering black peasants and a well-deserved National Hero of Jamaica.
George William Gordon was a large land owner, shop keeper, produce dealer, preacher, politician, social worker and philanthropist. He started out as an Anglican but changed to Baptist having been baptised into the Baptist Society by Rev. J.M. Phillippo, founder of Jamaica’s first Free Village.
Oct 15, 2023 · The George William Gordon Part I – Menace or martyr. A section of the monument for National Hero George William Gordon at National Heroes Park in Kingston. GEORGE WILLIAM Gordon was the son of Joseph Gordon, a Scotsman, who became a planting attorney for absentee proprietors of land in Jamaica, and who himself was a landed proprietor and ...
Feb 2, 2023 · George William Gordon (1815-65) was the son of a quadroon slave and a Scottish planter, Joseph Gordon. He was born in Cherry Garden, St. Andrew. His father recognised that he was a gifted child so he gave him school books and young Gordon taught himself to read, write, and do accounts.
