{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet, 1862 photograph '''Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet''', FRS (21 October 1806 – 29 July 1876) was a barrister and artist.
==Life== He was the only son of Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Baronet and his wife Isabella Julia Levina Bennet, daughter of Richard Henry Alexander Bennet.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=John |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1852 |publisher=Colburn & Company |page=441 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mDA_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA441 |language=en}}</ref>
Gordon entered Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1823 and was senior wrangler in 1827, placed ahead of Thomas Turner (1804–1883),<ref>{{acad|id=TNR822T|name=Turner, Thomas}}</ref> Anthony Cleasby, Augustus De Morgan and William Hopkins. He was made 2nd Smith's prizeman, behind Turner, also becoming a Fellow of his college that year.<ref name="acad">{{acad|id=GRDN823HP|name=Gordon, Henry Percy}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Neale |first=Charles Montague |year=1907 |title= The senior wranglers of the University of Cambridge, from 1748 to 1907 |page=31 |url=https://archive.org/stream/senoirwranglerso00nealrich#page/30/mode/2up|publisher=Groom and Son |location=Bury St. Edmunds}}</ref> He received an M.A. in 1830. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1828 and called to the bar in 1831. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1830. He was a Justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for the Isle of Wight.<ref name="acad"/>
In 1851, Gordon succeeded to his father's title. He became also 13th laird of Knockespock.<ref name="acad"/> The lairdship was under an entail, and he inherited it on the 1854 death of James Adam Gordon.<ref name="acad"/><ref name="Wimberley">{{cite book |last1=Wimberley |first1=Douglas |title=A genealogical account of the family of Gordon of Knockespock / by Douglas Wimberley |date=1903 |publisher=D. Wimberley |location=Inverness |page=87 |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalacco00wimb/page/87/mode/1up}}</ref>
Gordon died suddenly, at Blackhall, Kincardineshire, in 1876.<ref name="Wimberley"/> At his death, the baronetcy of Gordon of Northcourt became extinct.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gordon, Sir James Willoughby, 1st bt. (1772–1851), of Niton, I.o.W., History of Parliament Online |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/gordon-sir-james-1772-1851 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=20 October 2021 |archive-date=26 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826003156/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/gordon-sir-james-1772-1851 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[File:Memorial to Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet, in St Peter's Church, Shorwell, Isle of Wight.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet, in St Peter's Church, Shorwell, Isle of Wight]]
==Family== In 1839 Gordon married Lady Mary Agnes Blanche Ashburnham, daughter of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham and Charlotte Ashburnham.<ref name="acad"/> They had a daughter, Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon (died 1926): she married General Robert William Disney Leith (1819–1892). She was a writer and translator, publishing as Mrs. Disney Leith.<ref name="Wimberley"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kemp |first1=Sandra |last2=Mitchell |first2=Charlotte |last3=Trotter |first3=David |title=Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion |date=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-811760-5 |page=239 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Mitchell |first=Jeremy |title=Gordon [married name Leith], Mary Charlotte Julia [known as Mrs Disney Leith] (1840–1926), novelist and Icelandic traveller |date=2023-05-11 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-90000382399 |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |access-date=2023-09-01 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000382399 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |last2=Powney |first2=Janet|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Gordon was an engraver. He produced joint work with his sister, Julia Emily Gordon.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Harry Percy Gordon, 2nd Bt |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-harry-percy-gordon-2nd-bt-2637 |website=Tate}}</ref>
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