Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — Something About Lady Mary Cordon. [ARTICLE]

Something About Lady Mary Cordon.

Lady Mary Gordon, to whom “Th« Sisters” is dedicated by her affectionate nephew, Algernon Charles Swinburne, is the youngest of the twelve children of the third Earl of Ashburnham, being seven years junior to the poet’s mother, Lady Jane Swinburne. She married in 1839 the onlj son of Gen. Sir. .Tames Willoughbj Gordon, and possibly from this gallant soldier have filtered down some of the military traditions embodied in the tragedy.- Sir-Henry Percy Goo don succeeded his father in 1851,-but sought distinction in a different line, took honors at Cambridge, and became aF.R. S. At his death in 1876 the baronetcy lapsed for want of an heir, and his widow, Lady Mary, was left in possession of North Court, their pleasant seastde home near Niton, in the Isle of Wight