GORDON, Charles Alexander. Aberdeen 27.5.1821 — London 30.9.1899. British Physician, Surgeon-General in India. Son of an officer, William Alexander Gordon (1769–1856). Studies at Edinburgh and St.Andrews (M.D. 1849). From 1841 Assistant Surgeon in Army Medical Department, served in North India, 1847-48 on West Africa expedition and 1860-61 in China. In 1870-71 in Franco-German war as medical commissioner for the French Army, then Surgeon-General in Madras. Retired in 1880. K.C.B. 1897. Married 1850 Anne Mackintosh (1826–1910), one son and one daughter.
Publications: “On Hygiene in Ancient India”, MJLS 1879, 1-35.
– Experiences of an Army Surgeon in India. 168 p. L. 1872; Through Three Victorian Campaigns: Experiences of a Regimental Surgeon During the Gwalior War, Campaigns in West Africa and the Indian Mutiny. 18??, repr. 209 p. 2009; Recollections of Thirty-Nine Years in the Army: Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843, the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48, the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58, the Expedition to China, 1860-61, the Siege of Paris, 1870-71, etc. 8+320 p. L. 1898.
– Medical writings; travel books on Burma, Gold Coast (Ghana), and Madeira.
Sources: British Medical Journal 1899, 958f.; scanty stray notes in Internet; family details in WikiTree.
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