Gorton

[gawr-tn]

noun

John Grey,1911–2002, Australian political leader: prime minister 1968–71.

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Historical Examples of gorton

Richard, our own Richard, following the tribe of Gorton, the Familist!
The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII)
John Greenleaf Whittier
Gorton has taken one of the rejected recruits to wait on him.
Diary of an Enlisted Man
Lawrence Van Alstyne
Whether Gorton had given her any points about me or not I don't know.
Diary of an Enlisted Man
Lawrence Van Alstyne
Gorton knows all about that and may have told her, though he swears he did not.
Diary of an Enlisted Man
Lawrence Van Alstyne
That is all I could tell Mrs. Gorton, or the lieutenant, when I saw him again.
Diary of an Enlisted Man
Lawrence Van Alstyne

British Dictionary definitions for gorton

Gorton

noun

Sir John Grey. 1911–2002, Australian statesman; prime minister (1968–71)

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