Lord George Gordon, a prisoner in the Tower of London, England in 1780, convicted of high treason for his role in instigating The Gordon Riots, an anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778. Lord George Gordon, 1751 – 1793. British politician.

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Lord George Gordon, a prisoner in the Tower of London, England in 1780, convicted of high treason for his role in instigating The Gordon Riots, an anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778. Lord George Gordon, 1751 – 1793. British politician. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published 1861.

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