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Timeline Adam Lindsay Gordon:

Move:
1830
Horta, Faial, Azores, Portugal
They were said to live there Palacete of Pilar (Casa do Pilar) oriented towards the southeast and the city of Horta located on the island of Faial.
Established in 1745, Cossart Gordon & Co. represents the oldest company in the Madeira trade. It was originally founded by Scotsmen, Grancis Newton and William Gordon, who were later joined by William Cossart in 1808. The company established a reputation as suppliers of the finest of Madeiras mainly due to their trade relationship with American colonies. It was told it was Adam Durnford Gordon father William Gordon that the family inherit Vineyards in Azores and Madeira. The Dutch East India Company became a regular customer, picking up large (112 gal/423 L) casks of wine known as "pipes" for their voyages to India.
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/nor.2016.0106

Education:
29th May 1848
In 1848, Gordon was amongst the first intake of pupils to Cheltenham College where he spent only a year and then on to Dumbleton Rectory, a boarding and fighting school and later to Shooter’s Hill to prepare for the military. He joined the Woolwich Royal Military Academy and was removed from there in June 1851 for breaking rules. A short stay followed back at Cheltenham College. His father had hoped to secure for him an Addiscombe Cadetship. This failed, and to occupy his time he sent him to Worcester Royal Grammar School. Lindsay was thus 16 years when he came to Worcester. His time there must have been mainly a stop-gap, for his father continued to look for a cadetship in the military for him.
A cousin of Lindsay, R. G. Gordon, had entered the Grammar School in December, 1851. Lindsay came to live with his cousin and his family at Greenhill Place, Worcester, in January, 1852, and soon afterwards became a private pupil at Worcester.

Immigration:
11th Nov 1853
Adelaide, SA, Australia
Sail for Adelaide, Australia from St Katherine's Dock in London, aboard the barque Julia.

Occupation/Timeline:
✱ 24th November 1853, he joined the South Australian Mounted Police, stationed at Penola in the Mount Gambie.
✱ 4th November 1855, ostensibly to become a drover.
✱ 26th October 1861, horse-breaker and steeplechase rider in country areas.
✱ 11th January 1865, when he received a deputation stand the South Australian parliament.
✱ Around March/April 1865, Gordon was returned to the House of Assembly for the Victoria district, topping the poll.
✱ 1866, Lambton Mount with his brother Frank Mount and the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, Mount migrated to Western, Australia, where they were business partners in an unsuccessful sheep farm at Balingup. Who is Lambton Mount (12 March 1836-12 June 1931) was a Canadian-born Australian businessman. He is credited with introducing the sport of lacrosse to Australia. During the early 1860s, he was a well-known athlete, running against H.C.A. Harrison in a series of foot races.
✱ 11 December 1866, with Lambton Mount he landed at Bunbury with some 5000 sheep; in a few months his flock had been reduced by about one-third.
✱ 22 November 1868, he rented Mr. Craig livery stables in Ballarat was bankrupted by a fire in the livery stable Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
✱ January 1868, he joined the Ballarat Troop of Light Horse. In March he was promoted senior sergeant but suffered a serious horse-riding accident, one of many that undermined his physical condition.
✱ 1868, Inherit property, Gordon heard that he was heir to the family estate, Haddo House of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was convinced of his right to the estate, by acquiring Haddo House, to guarantee his wife's financial security. In June he received news that the entail Haddo House had been abolished and therefore he would not receive the inheritance.
✱ Between 1868/69 Margaret Park Separation with Adam Lindsay Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
✱ 1869/70, he was riding in various parts of Victoria, and in May he took lodgings in Brighton, He was also continuing to publish poetry and prose.
✱ 24th Jun 1870, that morning Gordon went to the beach at Brighton and shot himself.
✱ 1932, Memorial Bust, Parliament House, Spring St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Poet:
✱ 4th August, 1853, ‘To My Sisters, three days before he sailed for Australia.
✱ 30th August, his first publication, 'The Feud', appeared in the Border Watch, first two volumes of poetry were published.
✱ 10th June 1867, Ashtaroth, Sea Spray and Smoke Drift.
✱ 23th June 1870, his Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes was published.
https://electricscotland.com/webclans/dtog/bibliographyofgordons.pdf

Will:
26th Oct 1861
Harriet Elizabeth Gordon daughter of Robert Gordon, the Governor of Berbice. He had property in Spain and Mexico and was in partner- ship with Murphy, under the title of Gordon, Murphy, and Company. (By ship letter telegram surviving Gordon children received from they Mother estate about £6944 towards the end of 1861, today about £1,130,894.46)

Migrated:
around 1854
Cornwall County, Jamaica
Adam Durnford, Harriet Elizabeth Gordon
Harriet had lost her daughter Agnez began to show the first signs of a religious mania that almost dominated her life and signs of Melancholy.
Many Gordons estates shows us, several of the Gordons in the colony were deported there on conviction. The following list is admittedly not complete, but it covers a fair area, Reference Cheltenham Plantation Coffee Trelawny, Jamaica. Cousin Adam Durnford Gordon and Harriet had some ties with Thomas Gordon (1788–1841) was the son of Charles Gordon, 7th of Buthlaw and 1st of Cairness, and his wife Christian Forbes. Gordon died at Cairness House and was survived by his wife. He had no issue with her and in his will left most of his estate. including a large landholding in Jamaica, to an illegitimate son called James Wilkinson, who later took the surname Gordon. His existence seems to have been a secret from the rest of the family as he had been brought up by a tutor in Elgin, Moray, Scotland The inheritance caused much scandal and led to a long period of litigation within the family. Thomas Gordon's historical library and manuscripts were sold in March 1850, and his antiquities in the following June, although some items remained at Cairness House until 1938, after the last of the Gordons sold the estate.
https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/9560/95609718.23.pdf
https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/exhibits/show...

Inherit property:
Jun 1870
1868 Gordon heard that he was heir to the family estate, Haddo House of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was convinced of his right to the estate, His letters show his increasing Melancholy. He hoped, by acquiring Haddo House, to guarantee his wife's financial security. In June he received news that the entail Haddo House had been abolished and therefore he would not receive the inheritance. 24th Jun 1870 that morning Gordon went to the beach at Brighton and shot himself.

Burial:
Adam Durnford, Harriet Elizabeth Gordon
Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica

Memorial Burial:
12th Feb 1911
Gordon family Theodora, Ada Mary, Agnez, Adam Durnford, Harriet Elizabeth Memorial grave in the grounds of Holy Trinity Church, Cheltenham. Several Newspaper Clipping says that Ignez (Agnez) is dead, she died before her brothers voyage to Australia.

Probate:
By Francesca Clara Ignez Ratti
Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Received money on the will effects under £200. (Today about £32,311.27)
Different Gordon, Francesca father is Adam Daryard Gordon not Adam Durnford Gordon.

Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon:

A Basket Of Flowers - From Dawn To Dusk
Dawn

A Dedication To The Author Of “Holmby House”
-They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less

A Fragment- They say that poison-sprinkled flowers

A Hunting Song- Here’s a health to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord,

A Legend Of Madrid- Translated from the Spanish

A Song Of Autumn- “Where shall we go for our garlands glad

After The Quarrel- Laurence Raby’s Chamber. LAURENCE enters, a little the worse for liquor.

An Exile’s Farewell- The ocean heaves around us still

Ars Longa - A Song Of Pilgrimage - Our hopes are wild imaginings,

Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric- Dramatis Personae

Bellona- Thou art moulded in marble impassive,

Borrow’d Plumes- A Preface and a Piracy

By Flood And Field - A Legend Of The Cottiswold
“They have saddled a hundred milk-white steeds,

By Wood And Wold - A Preamble -“Beneath the greenwood bough.”

Cito Pede Preterit Aetas - A Philosophical Dissertation- “Gillian’s dead, God rest her bier,

Confiteor -The shore-boat lies in the morning light,

Credat Judaeus Apella - Dear Bell, I enclose what you ask in a letter,

Cui Bono- Oh! wind that whistles o’er thorns and thistles,

De Te- A burning glass of burnished brass,

Delilah- from a Picture

Discontent- LAURENCE RABY.

Doubtful Dreams- Aye, snows are rife in December,

Early Adieux- Adieu to kindred hearts and home,

Ex Fumo Dare Lucem - ’Twixt The Cup And The Lip
Prologue

Exeunt - HELEN RABY.

Fauconshawe - A Ballad - To fetch clear water out of the spring

Finis Exoptatus - A Metaphysical Song - “There’s something in this world amiss

Fragmentary Scenes From The Road To Avernus - An Unpublished Dramatic Lyric- Scene I

From Lightning And Tempest- The spring-wind pass’d through the forest, and whispered low in the leaves,

From The Wreck - “Turn out, boys!”, “What’s up with our super to-night?

Gone- In Collins-street standeth a statue tall,*

Hippodromania; or, Whiffs From The Pipe -In Five Parts

How We Beat The Favourite - A Lay Of The Loamshire Hunt Cup- “Aye, squire,” said Stevens, “they back him at evens;

In The Garden- Aylmer’s Garden, near the Lake. LAURENCE RABY and ESTELLE.

In Utrumque Paratus - A Logical Discussion
“Then hey for boot and horse, lad!

Laudamus- The Lord shall slay or the Lord shall save!

Lex Talionis - A Moral Discourse
“And if there’s blood upon his hand,

No Name- “A stone upon her heart and head,

Pastor Cum- Translation from Horace

Podas Okus- Am I waking? Was I sleeping?

Potters’ Clay - An Allegorical Interlude
“Nec propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.”

Quare Fatigasti- Two years ago I was thinking

Rippling Water- The maiden sat by the river side

Sea Spray And Smoke Drift- Podas Okus

Sunlight On The Sea- The Philosophy of a Feast

Ten Paces Off- An open country.

The Feud: A Border Ballad - PLATE I

The Fields Of Coleraine- On the fields of Col’raine there’ll be labour in vain

The Last Leap- All is over! fleet career,

The Old Leaven - A Dialogue- Mark:

The Race- On the hill they are crowding together,

The Rhyme Of Joyous Garde- Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense

The Roll Of The Kettledrum; or, The Lay Of The Last Charger- “You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet,

The Romance Of Britomarte- As related by Sergeant Leigh on the night he got his captaincy at the Restoration.

The Sick Stockrider- Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade.

The Song Of The Surf- White steeds of ocean, that leap with a hollow and wearisome roar

The Swimmer- With short, sharp, violent lights made vivid,

The Three Friends- The sword slew one in deadly strife;

Thick-headed Thoughts- No. I

Thora’s Song - (“Ashtaroth”) We severed in autumn early,

To A Proud Beauty - A Valentine
Though I have loved you well, I ween,

To My Sisters- Lines written by the late A. L. Gordon
Two Exhortations

A Shooting-box in the West of Ireland. A Bedchamber.

Unshriven- Oh! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie,

Valedictory Poem- Lay me low, my work is done;

Visions In The Smoke- Rest, and be thankful! On the verge

Whisperings In Wattle-Boughs- Oh, gaily sings the bird! and the wattle-boughs are stirr’d

Wolf And Hound - “The hills like giants at a hunting lay

Wormwood And Nightshade- The troubles of life are many,

Ye Wearie Wayfarer, Hys Ballad - (In Eight Fyttes)
Fytte I

Zu der edlen Yagd - [A Treatise On Trees—Vine-tree v. Saddle-Tree]- “Now, welcome, welcome, masters mine,