Robert Brown (Scottish politician) Robert Brown (Scottish politician) Robert Edward Brown (born 25 December 1947) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and former MSP for Glasgow Region 1999−2011. A graduate of University of Aberdeen, he was Depute Procurator Fiscal of Dumbarton 1972−1974 and has since been a partner and consultant with a Glasgow firm of solicitors. He was a Glasgow City Councillor (Liberal) for a few years in the 1970s and 1980s, and was Convener of the Scottish Liberal Democrat Policy Committee for much of the 1990s and 2000s. He was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. Following Nicol Stephen's election as
Robert Gordon (minister) Campbell, with whom he had a large family. Two of his sons, Robert and Donald Campbell, became ministers in the Free Church. Robert Gordon (minister) Rev Dr Robert Gordon DD FRSE (5 May 1786 – 21 October 1853) was a Scottish minister and author. Originally prominent in the Church of Scotland, and serving as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1841, following the Disruption of 1843 he joined the Free Church of Scotland and became a prominent figure in that church. He was the inventor of a self-registering hygrometer. He was born 5 May 1786 at Old Crawfordton, Glencairn, Dumfriesshire,