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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Gordon | | | First names | Robert | | | Rank/ occupation | Colonel | | | Unit | Dutch East India Company | | | Death date | 1796 | | | Place of death | Cape of Good Hope  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | May 1796 | | | Page number | 442 | | | Detail | At the same place [Cape of Good Hope], suddenly, Col. Robert Gordon, many years commandant of the Dutch forces there, and one of the council of that government, who lately surrended that important settlement to the British army. He was descended from a Scotch family. The time of its settling in Holland is not known, but it must have been very long ago, as his grandfather was burgomaster of Schiedam... [lengthy obituary, pages 442-443, says that he served the Dutch East India Company at the Cape, married a Swiss woman; refers to Col. Cathcart who ""in his passage on an embassy to China, died in the Indian seas, and was buried on one of those islands" |
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