George Phineas Gordon was born on 21 April 1810, in Salem, New Hampshire, where his family had lived for more than 150 years. He was the second son of the merchant Phineas Gordon (1781-1850), and ...

He was a child of George Gordon, Lord Haddo and his wife Charlotte (Baird) and was born in Edinburgh. After the death of his father the family moved to London and he attended Harrow School. William ...