Naval officer. Born Aberdeenshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1853 until his death. 75 years in the navy, he was possibly the model for C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.
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Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role...
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