Major Sir William Eden Evans Gordon was a British MP who previously served as a military diplomat in India.
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18 Facts About William Evans-Gordon
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William Evans-Gordon's career in India was a mixture of military administrative business on the volatile North-West Frontier, and diplomacy and foreign politics advising Maharajas or accompanying the Viceroy in the Princely States.
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William Evans-Gordon was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 67th Foot on 15 January 1877.
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William Evans-Gordon transferred on 3 July to the Madras Staff Corps of the Indian Army, attached to the 41st Madras Native Infantry in 1880 as Wing Officer and Quartermaster.
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William Evans-Gordon had charge of the Frontier branch of the Foreign Dept.
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William Evans-Gordon sought refuge in Persia, where he entered into negotiations with Sir Mortimer Durand, now ambassador at Teheran.
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William Evans-Gordon took charge of him on his arrival in India and escorted him and his entourage from Karachi to Rawalpindi.
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William Evans-Gordon was political officer in attendance on the Maharaja of Baroda, Sayajirao Gaekwad III when he travelled to Europe in 1894.
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William Evans-Gordon retired on pension on 13 May 1897, and on 17 February 1900 was appointed a Major in the Reserve of Officers.
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William Evans-Gordon was elected as MP for Stepney on an anti-alien platform in the 1900 general election and held the seat until 1907.
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William Evans-Gordon became known as one of the most vocal critics of aliens at the time, commenting that 'a storm is brewing which, if it is allowed to burst, will have deplorable results'.
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William Evans-Gordon and the BBL were instrumental in setting up a Royal Commission on immigration of which he was a member.
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Over a two-month period William Evans-Gordon travelled extensively in Eastern Europe, finding out at first hand about the highly restrictive conditions imposed on Jews in the Pale of Settlement and in Rumania His book about his fact-finding mission, The Alien Immigrant is an even-handed account of his research.
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William Evans-Gordon was one of the sponsors of the Pilotage Bill 1903, which dealt with Pilotage Certificates.
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William Evans-Gordon died suddenly on 31 October 1913 at his home at 4 Chelsea Embankment, London.
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William Evans-Gordon married the daughter of Edward Steinkopff, owner of the St James's Gazette and dedicatee of Evans-Gordon's The Alien Immigrant.
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