Person    | Male  Born 6/10/1782  Died 8/1/1869

Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB

Naval officer.  Born Aberdeenshire.  Governor of Greenwich Hospital1853 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

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Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground

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C. Culverhouse

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