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
Robert P. Gordon was the secretary of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament from 2001 to 2004. Gordon married Helen Ruth Lyttle in Belfast in 1970. He is the father of a daughter and two sons. Robert P. Gordon Robert Patterson Gordon (born 9 November 1945) was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 2012. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Gordon was educated at the Methodist College Belfast and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where as an undergraduate, Gordon was placed in the first class of the Oriental Studies Tripos. In 1973 he earned