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Alexander Gordon and Mettie Rasmussen Matheson
No full textAlexander Gordon and Mettie Rasmussen Matheson. Alexander and Mettie had 10 children.Photograph
Mali, plaque honoring Major Alexander Gordon Laing in Timbuktu
No full textTimbuktu: MemorialPlaque reads: 'To Major Alexander Gordon Laing 2nd West India Regiment, First European to reach Timbuktu 1825 fell here in 1826, Erected in his honour and memory by the African Society London 1930.'ColorVolume 104, Page
Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (MSS 445)
Get PDFFinding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 445. Correspondence, published and unpublished writing, and research of Alexander Gordon Wilson, faculty member in the English department of Western Kentucky University from 1915-1959. Includes genealogical and autobiographical material as well as extensive research data and writing on the ornithology of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky, on folklore and linguistics, and on the ornithology and folkways of the Mammoth Cave region of Edmonson County, Kentucky
Alexander Gordon
No full textSir Alexander Gordon was born on 22 May 1858 at Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Alexander Gordon, a barrister, and his wife Annie nee Chambers. His parents had arrived in Sydney on board the 'Maid of Judah' on 17 July 1857, along with three children. Alexander Senior was called to the New South Wales Bar on 1 August 1857. Sir Alexander was educated privately and at Repton School, Derbyshire, England. The family returned to England circa 1874 for his education but came back to Sydney on 31 April 1878 on board the 'Garome'. (1)<br /><br />Sir Alexander Gordon was called to the New South Wales Bar on 31 July 1882, like his father before him. He read for the Bar with Gateward Coleridge Davis and Cecil Bedford Stephen. From 1 July 1880 to 30 June 1881, he was an Associate to Justice John Fletcher Hargrave, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Gordon practised in all jurisdictions and on the Northern Circuit, but specialised in equity and probate. His offices were at 128 Elizabeth Street, Sydney (1885), 89 Elizabeth Street (1887-1889), 67 Elizabeth Street (1890-1897) and 143 Phillip Street (1898-1910). His appointment as a King's Counsel was approved by the Executive Council on 23 February 1904. (2)<br /><br />Gordon was appointed a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 27 April 1910. From 2 May 1910 he was Judge to exercise the Matrimonial Causes Jurisdiction, also known as Judge in Divorce. He continued this role until Justice Langer Meade Loftus Owen became Judge in Divorce on 5 December 1923. By 1924 Gordon was Senior Puisne Judge. On 16 April 1928 he went on leave prior to retiring from the Supreme Court on 22 January 1929. (3)<br /><br />Gordon was made a Knight Bachelor on 3 June 1931 for his services as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. (4)<br /><br />On 26 September 1906 Gordon married Margaret Jane Thomas at her home town of New Quay, Cardiganshire, Wales. They had met in Sydney in December 1905 when Margaret, a mezzo-soprano, toured Australia with JC Williamson. (5)<br /><br />Gordon and his wife were active in the community, especially in musicals and theatricals. Margaret Gordon used her talents to raise money for the Red Cross Society during World War I. She was a vice-president of the Australian Red Cross from 1940 to 1947. Between the wars she supported the Women's Hospital and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Sir Alexander Gordon was a vice-president of the Sydney Madrigal and Chamber Music Society and the Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney, a Council member of Cranbrook School and St Luke's Hospital, and chairman of the Hospital Saturday Fund. Both husband and wife assisted the St John's Ambulance Association and the Karitane mothercraft training centre. He was also president of the Sydney Law Tennis Club and a vice-president of the New South Wales Cricket Association. (6)<br /><br />Sir Alexander Gordon died in Sydney on 7 January 1942, survived by his wife and their son and daughter. (7)<br /><br /><br />Endnotes:<br />1. Fred Johns, Johns's Notable Australians and Who's Who in Australasia, various, 1906, p.78; 1908, p.147; Fred Johns, Fred Johns's Annual, various, 1912, p.13; 1913, p.53; 1914, p.81; Fred Johns, Who's Who in the Commonwealth of Australia, various, 1922, p.108; 1927-8, p.103; Who's Who in Australia, Melbourne, Herald and Weekly Press Ltd, 1933-4, p.142; 1935, p.204; 1938, p.216; 1941, p.296; Sydney Morning Herald 9 January 1942, p.5; Martha Rutledge, 'Gordon, Sir Alexander (1858-1942)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition, <a href="http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090681b.htm ">http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090681b.htm</a> (cited 24 March 2009); KJ Cable, 'Gordon, Alexander (1815-1903)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition, <a href="http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040303b.htm">http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040303b.htm</a> (cited 24 March 2009); 'Mariners and Ships in Australian Water', Maid of Judah, <a href="http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/1857/07/scan.asp?filename=032mai.gif ">http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/1857/07/scan.asp?filename=032mai.gif</a> (cited 25 March 2009); Supreme Court; NRS 13664, Roll of Barristers and Solicitors, 1824-1876; Fiche 852, p.6A; 'Mariners and Ships in Australian Water', Garome, <a href="http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/1878/04/media/095gar.jpg">http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/1878/04/media/095gar.jpg</a> (cited 25 March 2009).<br />2. Barristers Admission Board; NRS 13665, Roll of Barristers, 15 June 1876 - 1 December 1926; Reel 2147, p.2; Martha Rutledge, op.cit.; New South Wales Blue Book, Sydney, NSW Government Printer, 1880, p.64; 1881, p.65; Fred Johns, Johns's Annual, op.cit., 1912, p.13; New South Wales Law Almanac, Sydney, NSW Government Printer, 1883, p.25; 1885, p.26; 1887, p.23; 1890, p.34; 1898, p.37; 1910, p.49; Attorney General's Department [III]; NRS 333, Letters received - Special Bundles, 1874-1984; [10/42918] Correspondence re appointment of King's Counsels, 1898-1941; New South Wales Government Gazette, No.139, 8 March 1904, p.2073.<br />3. New South Wales Government Gazette, No.58, 27 April 1910, p.2270; No.63, 4 May 1910, p.2385; No.151, 7 December 1923, p.5698; State Reports New South Wales, Sydney, Law Book Company of Australasia Ltd, Vol.10, 1910, Memoranda; Vol.23, 1923; Vol.28, 1928, Memoranda; New South Wales Law Almanac for 1932, Sydney, NSW Government Printer, 1932, p.28.<br />4. It's an honour website <a href="http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au">http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au</a> (cited 23 January 2008).<br />5. Martha Rutledge, op.cit.<br />6. ibid.<br />7. ibid.; Australian Law Journal, Vol.15, p.300 (16 January 1942); Sydney Morning Herald 9 January 1942, p.5.<br /><br /><br />PER-85Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 27/04/1910 - 22/01/1929<br/>Judge in Divorce, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 02/05/1910 - 04/12/1923<br/>
Mali, children outside home of Major Alexander Gordon Laing in Timbuktu
No full textTimbuktu - Home of Maj. Laing first European to reach Timb [Timbuktu] - 1825Plaque over door reads: 'To Major Alexander Gordon Laing 2nd West India Regiment, First European to reach Timbuktu 1825 fell here in 1826, Erected in his honour and memory by the African Society London 1930.'ColorVolume 104, Page
Chyndonax to Galgacus: New Letters of William Stukeley to Alexander Gordon
No full textPreviously unpublished letters of William Stukeley (1687-1765) to Alexander Gordon (?1692-?1754) are printed with a commentary to commemorate the tercentenary of Stukeley's birth. The letters are important as being the only correspondence extant between Stukeley and Gordon, and because they sum up many aspects ofStukeley's personality and shed light on his early preoccupation with the Druids.</jats:p
Mali, door on home of Major Alexander Gordon Laing in Timbuktu
No full textTimbuktu: House occupied by Maj. LaingPlaque over door reads: 'To Major Alexander Gordon Laing 2nd West India Regiment, First European to reach Timbuktu 1825 fell here in 1826, Erected in his honour and memory by the African Society London 1930.'ColorVolume 104, Page
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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