John Gordon

(1786-1818)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gordon, John, 1786-1818 NRA: Gordon John (1786-1818) Physician LBT ID: JoGordo1818 VIAF ID: 63504771 LOC ID: nb99046000	B/BAP: 1786 DIED: 1818
SOURCES: Wellesley Guide to Victorian Periodicals; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish physician who wrote a devastating treatment of Spurzheim's phrenology for the Edinburgh Review.
REFERENCES TO John Gordon: Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 March 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 1: ¶ 86 “Notice from the Editor” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (November 1817) title-page verso Found 1: ¶ 4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1810