Robert Gordon University some modern universities in the UK which were created following the government reforms of 1992, it has never been a polytechnic (these were never part of the Scottish education system). Robert Gordon was a Scottish merchant, who had grown up in Aberdeen and graduated from Marischal College. Following a successful career, mostly in Danzig where he amassed a fortune, he retired to Aberdeen around 1720. In the last decade of his life, he prepared plans for a Hospital similar to that founded in Edinburgh by George Heriot. The purpose of Robert Gordon's Hospital was ""the Maintenance, Aliment, Entertainment and Education
Robert P. Gordon Robert P. Gordon Robert Patterson Gordon (born 9 November 1945) was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 2012. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Gordon was educated at the Methodist College Belfast and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where as an undergraduate, Gordon was placed in the first class of the Oriental Studies Tripos. In 1973 he earned the PhD at the University of Cambridge with a thesis entitled "A Study of Targum Jonathan to the Minor Prophets from Nahum to Malachi", written under the supervision of Professor J.A. Emerton. In 2001 he was awarded