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
Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet (1696–1772) was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722. Gordon was the eldest son of Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet of Gordonstown and his second wife Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of Sir William Dunbar, 1st Baronet of Hempriggs, Caithness. His father died in 1704 and he succeeded to the baronetcy. His mother married secondly James Sutherland afterwards Dunbar who was Member of Parliament for Caithness from 1710 to 1713. Gordon was elected MP for Caithness at the 1715 general election. As the