Robert Gordon University The two universities also compete annually in the Granite City Challenge which sees teams across a range of sports compete to be the best in the city. The Robert Gordon University has 2 partner schools in Switzerland: In 2010, RGU gained international attention for awarding an honorary degree to controversial American businessman Donald Trump, whose mother was from Scotland. This featured in the 2012 documentary film "You've Been Trumped" which documented the progress of the construction of Trump's golf course near Aberdeen from the point of view of local residents. In the film Dr David Kennedy, former Principal of the
George Gordon (engineer) died on 25 February 1907 at his home, Ellerslie in Gordon Street Toorak, aged 78 leaving assets of £8289, including £2603 in property. George Gordon (engineer) George Gordon (1829–1907) was a Scottish born engineer who was prominent in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. Gordon was the son of Robert Gordon and Margaret Auton. He was born in 1829 at Arbroath, Forfarshire, Scotland, while the family home was Cargield House near the market town of Dumfries. Gordon was educated at the local Academy, and later studied at Bonn and Wiesbaden in Germany, before attending engineering lectures at University College, London,