Robert Gordon of Straloch Robert Gordon of Straloch Robert Gordon of Straloch (14 September 1580 – 18 August 1661) was a Scottish cartographer, noted as a poet, mathematician, antiquary, and geographer, and for his collection of music for the lute. The younger son of Sir John Gordon of Pitlurg, Knight, (died 1600) by his spouse Isabel, daughter of William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes, Robert Gordon was educated at the Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, of which he was the first graduate, and afterwards at the University of Paris. Sometime after 1608 he acquired the estate of Straloch, north of Aberdeen. After the death of
Gordon Lindhurst Gordon Lindhurst Gordon John Lindhurst MSP is a Scottish politician who is a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Member of Scottish Parliament for the Lothian region. He was first elected at the Scottish Parliament election, 2016. Lindhurst is an advocate from Edinburgh. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and completed his legal training with an Edinburgh law firm. He has also completed a master's degree in European law at Heidelberg University in Germany. Lindhurst supports a number of local Edinburgh charities and has also worked in central Romania with a locally based charity there which provides education and support for