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Major Sir William Eden Evans Gordon, I.S.C. (8 August 1857 – 31 October 1913)〔''The Times'', 3 Nov 1913 p. 11''d''〕〔(Find-a-Grave profile )〕 was a British MP who previously served as a military diplomat in India. As a political officer on secondment from the British Indian Army from 1876 to 1897 during the British Raj, he was attached to the Foreign Department of the Indian Government. His career in India was a mixture of military administrative business on the volatile North-West Frontier, and diplomacy and foreign politics advising Maharajas or accompanying the Viceroy in the Princely States. After leaving the Army, Evans Gordon returned to Britain and in 1900 was elected as Conservative Party MP for Stepney on an anti-alien platform. As a result of the pogroms in Eastern Europe, an increasing number of Jews were arriving in Britain either to stay, or ''en route'' for America. Evans Gordon, as a 'restrictionist', was heavily and actively involved in the passing of the Aliens Act 1905, which sought to limit the number of people allowed to enter Britain, even temporarily. He held Stepney from 1900 to 1907. ==Early life== William Eden Evans Gordon〔See § To hyphenate or not? below〕 was born in Chatham, Kent, the youngest son of Major-General Charles Spalding Evans Gordon (19 September 1813-18 January 1901) and his first wife, Catherine Rose (23 July 1815 – 1858), daughter of Rev. Dr. Alexander Rose, D.D., a Presbyterian minister of Inverness. William was the youngest of seven children. ''See also'' Family tree ''below''. His mother died in 1858, soon after he was born.〔He may possibly have lived in Dublin, where his father was (Town Major ) from 1864, and where his father re-married in 1866.〕 He was educated at Cheltenham College (entering in October 1870 at the same time as his older brother Charles ()),〔(Cheltenham College Register 1841-1889, p. 277, pdf p. 319 )〕 and at the Royal Military College, where he was an unattached Sub-Lieutenant on 15 July 1876.〔(Hart, H. G (ed.) ''The New Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, 1877'', p. 112 ). London: John Murray. NB His name here is hyphenated... *''For the militarily curious'': among other unattached sub-lieutenants at Sandhurst that year were: J.B. De la Poer Beresford, 8th Marquess of Waterford; Walter Kitchener; Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough; Horace G. Proctor-Beauchamp, 6th Baronet; Frederick W.R. Ricketts, 5th Baronet; (later General) Horace Smith-Dorrien; Richard Garnons Williams; Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet; H.C. Wylly, et al.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Evans-Gordon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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