John Gordon

b. 1706

Sources give conflicting biographical information. Constance Oliver Skelton and John Malcolm Bulloch identify him as the son of Peter Gordon, wadsetter at Birkenbush (Gordons under Arms, p. 526). Elsewhere, Bulloch mentions John Gordon as the son of Alexander, eldest son of John Gordon, formerly of Oxhill, and states that the priest of Presholm "was 'out' with Lord Lewis Gordon" (The House of Gordon, p. 239). According to Rosebery's List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion, he "Went to Perth with Recruits and afterwards followed the Rebels" (p. 28). Skelton and Bulloch add that he "studied in Paris" and was ordained September 21, 1734. According to Aeneas McDonell Dawson, Gordon was in hiding for some time following Culloden, and he died "under a cloud" at Rothiemay (Catholics of Scotland, cited in Skelton and Bulloch).

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