Gordon Bennett
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Gordon Bennett
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 16 Sep 2019
'Gordon Bennett!' is an exclamation of amazement referring to the scandalous behaviour of the American playboy, publisher and sports promoter James Gordon Bennett Jr. His father, also James Gordon Bennett, was born in Keith in 1795, emigrated to the United States of America and founded the New York Herald. James Gordon Bennett Jr was born in New York in 1841, and took over the newspaper in 1866. It became expedient for him to leave New York in 1877 following a spectacular misdemeanour, after which he managed the New York Herald from his yacht in Europe. This stone commemorates the parents of James Gordon Bennett Sr, James Bennett, who died in 1824, and Janet Reid, who died in 1854. (In Scotland it is customary to include a married woman's maiden surname on a gravestone, which is a great boon to family historians.)
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Image Location
Latitude
57.5426
Longitude
-2.958529