Who was George Gordon? What happened to him
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In 1787 Gordon was convicted of libeling the queen of France, the French ambassador in London, and the administration of justice in England. After a period of exile he returned to England, and in January 1788 he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in Newgate.
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26, 1751, London, Eng. —died Nov. 1, 1793, London), English lord and instigator of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots in London (1780). The third and youngest son of the 3rd Duke of Gordon, he was educated at Eton and entered the British navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant in 1772.
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