Robert Gordon of Straloch Archbishop Spottiswoode's "History of the Church of Scotland", and translated into Latin the controversy between John Knox and Wolfram, sub-prior of St. Andrews. A critical letter of his on Scottish historians, which he addressed to the antiquarian David Buchanan, is inserted in Leyland's "Collectanea"; some of his poems have been printed in Bishop Forbes' "Funerales" (Aberdeen, 1635). Robert Gordon married in 1608, Catherine, daughter of Alexander Irvine of Lenturk, by whom he had nine sons and six daughters. He died in 1661, and was interred in the family burial place at New Machar on 6 September. A portrait of him,
Gordon MacDonald (Scottish politician) Gordon MacDonald (Scottish politician) Gordon MacDonald (born 2 January 1960) is a Scottish politician who is the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Edinburgh Pentlands constituency, since 2011. MacDonald was born in Glasgow and educated at Cumbernauld High School, the Central College of Commerce and the Glasgow College of Technology. He worked as a management accountant for Lothian Buses from 1989 to 2011. MacDonald contested the seat of Edinburgh Pentlands in the Scottish Parliament general election, 2011, and defeated the Conservative incumbent David McLetchie by a margin of 1,758 votes. He was re-elected to the