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,
Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet (1647–1704) was a Scottish courtier and politician. Born 7 March 1647, was the eldest son of Sir Ludovick Gordon, 2nd Baronet of Gordonstoun in Drainie, Elginshire, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Robert Farquhar of Mounie in Daviot, Aberdeenshire; his grandfather was Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet. He travelled in continental Europe, learning mechanics and chemistry. Gordon represented Sutherland in the Scottish Parliament of 1672-4, sat in the convention of 1678, in that of 1681-2, and again in 1685-6. He was knighted in 1673 and succeeded