General Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan Joshua Reynolds On a table in front

On a table in front of the bookcase is a representation of the Society's mace and charter [although inscribed 'DIPLOMA']

A print from The Old Derby China Factory: The Workmen and their Productions

He was also a member of the Mercer's Company

The gardens were opened in 1832 and comprised 15 acres

General Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan Joshua Reynolds On a table in frontGeneral Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan, c1890. Known as 'Chinese Gordon' because of his exploits in China in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, Charles George Gordon (1833 1885) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Appointed Governor General of the Sudan in 1880, he was killed at Khartoum on 26 January 1885 when the forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city. Lantern slide.