Thomas Gordon

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Standard Name: Gordon, Thomas,, 1714 - 1797

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Family and Intimate relationships Anna Gordon
Her father, Thomas Gordon , was an academic philosopher, Professor of Humanity at King's College, Aberdeen . He loved music and was for years a leading light of the (all-male) Aberdeen Musical Society . He died in 1797.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Anna Gordon
AG 's father 's friend William Tytler of Woodhouselee, author of A Dissertation on the Scottish Musick, 1779, asked Anna provide him with written copies of her old songs.
Perry, Ruth. “Ballads”. The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1789, edited by Catherine Ingrassia, Cambridge University Press, pp. 210-25.
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