Charles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator Size:XS: 40 x 30cm The scene is St George's

The scene is St George's Spa

Boat for fourteen pairs of oars

12th February 1814

North polar distance and sweep number

' Cruel landowner James Lowther

Charles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator Size:XS: 40 x 30cm The scene is St George'sCharles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator, (1893). Known as 'Chinese Gordon' because of his exploits in China in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, General Gordon (1833 1885) was killed at Khartoum on 26 January 1885 when the forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time, William Mackenzie,