Robert Gordon of Straloch Archbishop Spottiswoode's "History of the Church of Scotland", and translated into Latin the controversy between John Knox and Wolfram, sub-prior of St. Andrews. A critical letter of his on Scottish historians, which he addressed to the antiquarian David Buchanan, is inserted in Leyland's "Collectanea"; some of his poems have been printed in Bishop Forbes' "Funerales" (Aberdeen, 1635). Robert Gordon married in 1608, Catherine, daughter of Alexander Irvine of Lenturk, by whom he had nine sons and six daughters. He died in 1661, and was interred in the family burial place at New Machar on 6 September. A portrait of him,
Robert M. Gordon Robert M. Gordon Robert M. "Bob" Gordon (born July 3, 1950) is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey Senate since January 8, 2008, where he represented the 38th Legislative District until he resigned on April 4, 2018, to accept a cabinet position under Governor Phil Murphy. Gordon served in the General Assembly from 2004 to 2008, and was the 2007 Democratic nominee to succeed outgoing Senator Joseph Coniglio. Gordon graduated with a B.A. from Williams College in Political Economy, awarded an M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley in Public Policy, and received an MBA