Bust of General Charles Gordon, British soldier and administrator mb-code CMF1996cover carrying a box under his

carrying a box under his arm

left funds in his will for the extension of the almshouses after he died in 1719

and the moon appears from behind a cloud

A quack 'doctor' accompanied by a monkey

and the older child wears a large hat

Bust of General Charles Gordon, British soldier and administrator mb-code CMF1996cover carrying a box under hisBust of General Charles Gordon, British soldier and administrator, 1886. Known as 'Chinese Gordon' because of his exploits in China in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, General Gordon (1833 1885) was killed at Khartoum on 26 January 1885 when the forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city.