Robert Gordon of Straloch Robert Gordon of Straloch Robert Gordon of Straloch (14 September 1580 – 18 August 1661) was a Scottish cartographer, noted as a poet, mathematician, antiquary, and geographer, and for his collection of music for the lute. The younger son of Sir John Gordon of Pitlurg, Knight, (died 1600) by his spouse Isabel, daughter of William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes, Robert Gordon was educated at the Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, of which he was the first graduate, and afterwards at the University of Paris. Sometime after 1608 he acquired the estate of Straloch, north of Aberdeen. After the death of
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,