The Archive · 1937

NIECE OF GEN. GORDON DIES AT HOME

Miss Sarah Ellen Rose Gordon, of

Have, who died on July 14, aged 55, a niece of General Gordon of Khartoum, left property of the gross value of £9,013, with net personality £6,860. She left—The yellow Chinese jacket which belonged to her late uncle, General Gordon of Khartoum, and any letters from him to her sister, Violet Beatrice Lady Pinhey.

To the Corporation of Have for the Have Museum:—Six spears from the Sudan, two helmets with Crusader's Sword, one leather shield brought [from the Sudan by General Gordon f Khartoum, one gun from the battle of Toski the backbone of a shark, illed by Captain H. W. Gordon, one read basket, necklace, and bracelet brought by General Gordon from Central Africa in 1877, two rhinoceros horns from the Zambesi River, an airtight case containing baby clothes worn by Elizabeth Enderby at her christening in 1792, and then by her brothers and sisters and by her children including General Gordon of Khartoum, and other effects, Mr, Chen Kung-po, former Minister of Industries of China and member of the Central Executive Committee, arrived in Rome yesterday and will probably be received by Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Foreign Minister, and by Mussolini durin

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