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Malcolm Gordon was the son of Robert Gordon of the Aberdeenshire flax spinning business, Gordon & Co., which also had premises in Belfast. His mother was Maria Pirrie Barbour who was a daughter of William Barbour (1797–1875) who set up the thread works at Hilden, near Lisburn, in 1825. Malcolm Gordon started his working life at Barbour's thread mills at Paterson, New Jersey, USA and returned to Lisburn in 1901 to manage the Hilden and Dunmurry mills. He was a director of William Barbour & Sons and of the Linen Thread Company which was established in 1898 and became the largest combine of linen thread manufacturers in the world. In 1900 he married an American cousin, Mary D. Barbour. After her death he married again, Blanche Fayerweather in Paterson, New Jersey.
Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum
Lisburn
Title
Malcolm Gordon (1871–1953)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 100 x W 84 cm
Accession number
2010.146
Acquisition method
gift
Work type
Painting
Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum
Market Square, Lisburn, County Antrim BT28 1AG Northern Ireland
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