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The Gordon baronetcy of Northcourt in the Isle of Wight was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 5 December 1818 for James Willoughby Gordon. The son of Francis Grant-Gordon RN (birth name Francis Grant), he was an army officer and military secretary to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany from 1804 to 1809, when the Duke was commander-in-chief.[1][2][3]
- ^ Burke, John Bernard (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Colburn. p. 441.
- ^ "Gordon, Sir James Willoughby, 1st bt. (1772-1851), of Niton, I.o.W., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ^ "Sir James Willoughby Gordon 1772-1851, Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.