Robert Gordon (minister) was built for him. In September 1825 he moved to the New North Church, collegiate charge, and in 1830 to the High Church. In 1823 Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD). In 1827 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Robert Stevenson. From 1836 till 28 November 1843 he was collector of the Ministers' Widows' Fund. In the 1830s he is listed as living at 27 Lauriston in the Tollcross area of the city. When the conflict which led to the disruption of the Scottish church began, Gordon sided
Robert Gordon of Straloch by Jameson, the Scottish van Dyck, hangs in the great hall of Marischal College. He was the grandfather of another Robert Gordon, the founder of Robert Gordon's Hospital which later became Robert Gordon's College and The Robert Gordon University. 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