Gordon Webber (politician) Gordon Webber (politician) Gordon Charles Webber (6 January 1885 – 4 June 1960) was an Australian politician. He was born in Richmond to carpenter Henry Moore Webber and Harriett Bastin. He attended state school in Collingwood and then worked as a saddler. He eventually became a wickerworker, and served as president of the Wickerworkers' Union. On 6 February 1915 he married Doris Edna Brown, with whom he had one son; he would later remarry Maud Glenister on 12 January 1922 and have a further three children. During World War I he served with the 4th Light Horse as a stretcher-bearer.
Gordon (surname) era; in the Irish language this name is spelt "de Górdún". Also, the surname "Gordon" is an Anglicised form of the Irish language "Mag Mhuirneacháin", which is a patronymic form of the personal name "Muirneachán". This personal name is derived from the Irish language word "muirneach", meaning "beloved". Another origin of the Irish name Gordon is as an Anglicised form of the Irish language surname "Mórbhoirneach". "Gordon" ( ) is also a Jewish surname, likely derived from the city of Grodno, in Belarus. The Spanish, and Galician surname "Gordón" is derived from places like-named in the Spanish and Galician languages.