Robert Gordon University events. The mace is a modern design in silver and black, designed and crafted in 1993 by Gordon Burnett (a member of staff at the university's Gray's School of Art), and paid for by the City of Aberdeen as a gift to the new university. It was presented to the university at a ceremony on 26 June that year during which the first chancellor of the university, Bob Reid, was installed. The mace is primarily jet-black, with wavy fins edged in silver that run vertically down the full length of the mace's head (reflecting the wavy black band in the
Thomas Burnett Gordon Thomas Burnett Gordon Thomas Burnett Gordon (17 April 1652April 28, 1722) was a Scottish emigrant to the Thirteen Colonies who became Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and New Jersey Attorney General for the Province of New Jersey. Thomas Burnett Gordon was born in Pitlurg, Scotland, the son of Robert Gordon, 6th Laird of Pitlurg and Catherine Burnett, daughter of Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet of Leys. Thomas Gordon's grandfather, Robert, 1st Laird of Straloch, was a Scottish geographer, mathematician, and antiquary. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gordon_of_Straloch) His mother's lineage (Catherine Burnett) is, as follows: Robert III, King of Scotland, d. 1406