Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Graham Donaldson was a senior officer in the British Army who died as a result of an illness contracted during the disastrous Walcheren Campaign in 1809. He was commissioned in the 1st Foot Guards (the Grenadier Guards). There is a memorial to him in the Guards Officers Memorial at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks.
His eldest daughter, Eliza-Ann, married William Wright Esq, of Euston Hall, Sudbury, in 1827.