Hugh Gordon (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Hugh Mackay Gordon (1760 – 12 March 1823) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Military career
Gordon joined the British Army in 1775 and served in the American War of Independence being taken as a Prisoner of war during the Siege of Pensacola in 1781. He served in the West Indies from 1793 and became Assistant Quartermaster-General in the East Indies in 1798. He was appointed Inspector of militia in Jersey in 1799 and joined the staff in Madeira in 1811 before becoming Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth in 1815. In 1816 he went on to be Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

He was also Colonel of the 16th Regiment of Foot.

There is a memorial to him in St James's Church, Piccadilly.