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 J. Gordon (lawyer) Robert J. Gordon (lawyer) Robert J. Gordon is an American trial lawyer. He is Weitz & Luxenberg’s chief trial lawyer and partner. He has tried 70 mass tort cases involving asbestos, Vioxx, Rezulin, and silicone gel breast implants, obtaining jury verdicts totaling $405,741,511 with a case average of $5,796,307. He lectures nationally and has published numerous articles on various aspects of complex litigation. Formerly an assistant district attorney in the felony jury unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and an adjunct professor at Temple University, Mr. Gordon was honored by the National Law Journal in 1995 as one of