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Harry Pirie-Gordon was a prominent member of the Order of St John and a great enthusiast for the history of the crusades, ¹ who travelled extensively in the Middle East, both before and during the First World War and was one of a group of young men, who in the early 1900s decided to found their own Order, called the Order of Sanctissima Sophia. His was therefore a life which epitomised both piety and pugnacity.