Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Senate, and from 1950 until his retirement, Brown was the sole Father. He died in 1967. Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Gordon Brown (11 February 1885 – 12 January 1967) was a long-serving Australian politician. Born in Derbyshire, England, he was educated at Clay Cross Grammar School. He was apprenticed as a pattern maker but had a range of other jobs including piano salesman and coal miner. He visited Canada where he was imprisoned for street agitation. He migrated to Australia in 1912, where he became an organiser of the Shop Assistants' Union and of the Socialist Party. He spent time
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.