biography
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Gordon, Lord George
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| lived:
| (1751–93)
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| biography:
| Anti-Catholic agitator, born in London, UK. Educated at Eton, he entered the navy but resigned when refused a command in 1772. Elected MP in 1774, he formed an association aiming for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act (1778), and led a protest mob to Parliament, causing a major riot with 500 casualties (1780). He was tried for high treason; but was acquitted. He subsequently became a Jew, calling himself Israel Abraham George Gordon. In 1787 he was convicted for a libel on Marie Antoinette, and fled to Holland, but he was extradited and imprisoned in Newgate, where he died of gaol fever. |
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