[Rev.] James Bentley Gordon

Life
1750-1819; historian; b. Neeve Hall, Co. Derry; ed. TCD, BA 1773; incumbent of Cannaway Cork, and Killegney, Wexford; works include History of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1798 (1801) and History of Ireland (1805); also Terraquea, &c. ODNB DUB

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Works
History of the Rebellion in Ireland in the Year 1798 [...] the Proceedings of the Irish Revolutionists from 1782, with an appendix; second edn., with additions, and A Reply to the Observations of Sir Richard Musgrave, Bt. (London: Hursts 1803), 453pp. [Emerald Isle Books 95; £115].

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