Charles Gordon (25 December 1814 – 27 July 1899) was an English first-class cricketer and gin distiller. A member of the Gordon family, he ran Gordon's Gin from the 1850s. The grandson of the Alexander Gordon, the founder of Gordon's Gin, he was born at Finsbury in December 1814. He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent at Lord's in 1844, with Gordon playing in the return fixture at Canterbury. He played in the same fixture in 1845. By 1850, Gordon was in charge of Gordon's Gin and oversaw its exportation around the British Empire following the lifting of excise tax on exported gin by Parliament. He resumed playing first-class cricket in 1851, when he played for a team and Middlesex. Gordon played first-class cricket frequently un