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
Gordon Beveridge Management Ltd, which runs the Navan Fort complex; Textflow Services Ltd, QUBIS Ltd (1991–97) and Lennoxvale Developments Ltd. Gordon was the son of Victor Beattie Beveridge and Elizabeth Fairbairn Grieve. He married Geertruida Hillegonda Johanna Bruijn in 1963. He wrote more than 300 articles, papers and books, including "Optimization: Theory and Practice" (with Robert S. Schechter, publoished by McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. New York, 1970). Gordon Beveridge Sir Gordon Smith Grieve Beveridge FRSE MRIA FEng FIChemE FRSA (1933, St Andrews – 1999, Bangor) was a Scottish chemist. He served as President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland,