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Hugh Gordon (British Army officer)
Lieutenant General Hugh Mackay Gordon (1760 – 12 March 1823) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
==Military career==
Gordon joined the British Army in 1775〔(William Pless Map )〕 and served in the American War of Independence being taken as a Prisoner of war during the Siege of Pensacola in 1781.〔(British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815: 16th Regiment of Foot )〕 He served in the West Indies from 1793 and became Assistant Quartermaster-General in the East Indies in 1798.〔 He was appointed Inspector of militia in Jersey in 1799 and joined the staff in Madeira in 1811 before becoming Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth in 1815.〔 In 1816 he went on to be Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.〔(''Life of Lieutenant General Hugh Mackay of Scoury'' by John Mackay, p.188 )〕
He was also Colonel of the 16th Regiment of Foot.〔
There is a memorial to him in St James's Church, Piccadilly.〔(St James's Church in Piccadilly )〕
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