Robert Gordon University events. The mace is a modern design in silver and black, designed and crafted in 1993 by Gordon Burnett (a member of staff at the university's Gray's School of Art), and paid for by the City of Aberdeen as a gift to the new university. It was presented to the university at a ceremony on 26 June that year during which the first chancellor of the university, Bob Reid, was installed. The mace is primarily jet-black, with wavy fins edged in silver that run vertically down the full length of the mace's head (reflecting the wavy black band in the
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,