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Gordon was educated at Glasgow University and Oriel College, Oxford, where he received a First Class in Classical Moderations in 1904, Literae Humaniores in 1906, and the Stanhope Prize in 1905. He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1907 to 1915.
Gordon was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1913 to 1922. Later he was Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford from 1922 to 1928,[1] President of Magdalen College, Oxford,[2] Professor of Poetry there, and Vice-Chancellor (1938–1941). He was one of the Kolbítar, J. R. R. Tolkien's group of readers of Icelandic sagas.