A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, William Everard Alphonso
GORDON. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
William Everard Alphonso Gordon entered the Navy 29 April, 1830; passed his examination 7 Dec. 1836; and after serving for some time as Mate in the Cambridge 78, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Edw. Barnard, and also in the Dido, 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 Jan. 1842. His appointments have since been – 7 March, 1842, to the Winchester 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Hon. Josceline Percy – on 26 of the same month to the Vindictive 50, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, on the East India station – 15 Dec. 1842, to the Driver steam-sloop, Capts. Sam. Fielding Harmer and Courtenay Osborn Hayes, also employed in the East – 2 Sept. 1844, and 22 Jan. 1845, to the Firebrand steam-frigate, Capt. Jas. Hope, and Superb 80, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, both attached to the Channel squadron – and 15 June, 1846, as First, to the Inflexible steam-sloop, Capt. John Cochrane Hoseason, in which vessel he is now serving in the East Indies.