GORDON, John Rector of Scots College at Valladolid, Reverend Mr 1 2
- Born: 18 May 1747, Clashnoir, Glenlivet, Banffshire, Scotland 1 2
- Died: 15 February 1810, Castelnau, Auch, France 2
User ID: N970.
General Notes:
"(The following fragment was copied in 1909 from an autograph of Bishop Geddes then brown through age and almost illegible-a number of Geddes MSS. are so browned as hardly to be touched; I have not seen this fragment, but there are many now quite illegible.)
Memorie della Casa di Scalan dai 4 di Settembre dell' anno 1762.
1. Ai 4 di Settembre l'anno 1762 il S.D. Giovanni Geddes venne da Shenval a Scalan per aver la Direzione di questa casa. Trovo quivi il Sig. Giacomo Gray con tre giovani sotto la sua cura -. Alessandro Cameron, figlio del Sig. Giacomo Cameron e della Sig.ra-Mclntosh in Braemar pronipote del Sig. Don. Tomasso Brockie il quale allora aveva quindeci anni passati ed aveva quasi finito di studiare la Grammatica - Giovanni Gordon figlio del Sig. Giovanni Gordon e della Sig.ra Giovanetta Nairn in Clashnore di quindici anni passati il quale studiava la Grammatica - ed Alessandro Gordon figlio del Sig. Giovanni Gordon e della Sig.ra Elizabeta Grant in Minmore di anni . . . il quale studiava la Grammatica."
from Registers of Scalan
"John Gordon
Cameron. it will be recalled, was nominated bishop in September 1797 and, some time after this, he ceased to be rector and was succeeded in that position by John Gordon, who had been vice-rector since 1776 and who, in 1780, had been considered by Geddes to be far too scrupulous to be rector. He was the son of John Gordon and Jean Nairn and was born at Clashnore in Glenlivet on 18th May 1747.' There were several other children of the family, of whom at least two brothers (one, Robert, continued to live at Clashnore) and two sisters (Jean and Margaret, both in London) survived until adultho~d.~ He was already a pupil at Scalan, along with Alexander Cameron, when Geddes arrived to take charge in 1762. Both Gordon and Cameron left on 4th August 1764 and went to the Scots College in Rome. Cameron was ordained and recalled to Scotland a year earlier than expected but Gordon, who had been made decano or senior student: was ordained to the priesthood in the Lateran Basilica by Cardinal Marcantonio Colonna on 5th June 1773! He went to Scotland the following year, was two years in Aberdeen and then arrived in Valladolid in 1776 to be vice-rector."
from The Scots College in Spain 1 2
Noted events in his life were:
1. Scots College, 1764, Rome, Italy. 2
2. Ordained priest, 5 June 1773, Lateran Basilica, Rome, Italy. 2
3. Vice Rector: of Scots College, 1776, Valladolid, Spain. 2
4. Rector: of Scots College, 1798, Valladolid, Spain. 2
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