Lord Lewis Gordon | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Jacobite_broadside_-_Lord_Lewis_GORDON_(d.1754).jpg) Lewis Gordon, aged 13, from a portrait by John Alexander | |
| Born | 1724 Huntly, Aberdeenshire |
| Died | 15 June 1754 Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis |
| Allegiance |  Great Britain (c.1744–5)  Jacobites (1745–54) |
| Rank | Lieutenant (British); Colonel (Jacobite) |
| Unit | Lord Lewis Gordon's Regiment |
| Battles / wars | Jacobite Rising of 1745 |
Lord Lewis Gordon (22 December 1724 – 15 June 1754), also known as Lord Ludovick Gordon, was a Scottish nobleman, naval officer and Jacobite, remembered largely for participating in the Jacobite rising of 1745, during which Charles Edward Stuart appointed him Lord-lieutenant of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire.
During the rising Gordon and his agents raised a large number of men, often through impressment, from the estates of his brother the Duke of Gordon: the north-eastern counties ultimately provided up to a quarter of the Jacobite army's rank and file. After the failure of the campaign he escaped to France, dying at Montreuil in 1754.