BLOOD OF GORDONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19270, 6 September 1924, Page 10

BLOOD OF GORDONS

NO MIXTURE IN ADAM IJNDSAY

LONDON, August 28. That continued intermarriage among his ancestors may have accounted for the tragic life and death of Adam Lindsay Gordon, the Australian poet, is suggested in a letter to The Times, written by Mr John Malcolm Bulloch (editor of the London Graphic), who is a leading authority on the Gordon genealogy. Mr Bulloch states that most people probably know Adam Lindsay Gordon's parents were first cousins, but few realise that Ids forebears, ‘to his great-great-grand-parents, were all Gordons. Mr Bulloch traces the poet’s descent back to rhe seventeenth century, showing how his male and female ancestors were all Gordons.

He adds that with the exception of one break, the Gordon ancestry can be traced continuously on both sides, back to the thirteenth century. Such an accumulation of the saipo blood may be without precedent, and should interest students of eugenics. Mr J. M. Bulloch’s publications include “The Gay Gordons,” “The Gordon Highlanders,” and “Bibliography of the Gordons.”