Robert Gordon (diplomat)
For other people named Robert Gordon, see Robert Gordon (disambiguation).
Sir Robert Gordon Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1846
Sir Robert Gordon GCB GCH PC (1791 – 8 October 1847) was a British diplomat.
Gordon was a younger son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo (himself the eldest son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen) and a brother of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.[1] From 1826 to 1828, he was Envoy Extraordinary to Brazil, to the Ottoman Empire from 1828 to 1831 and to Austria from 1841 to 1847.
In 1830, he acquired a long-term lease of Balmoral Castle and entertained Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort there shortly before his death in 1847 (from choking on a fish bone). Albert later bought the estate from his trustees a year later as a gift for his wife.
References
Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Gordon, Robert (1791-1847)". Dictionary of National Biography 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ↑ "Gordon, Robert (GRDN809R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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| Preceded by Sir Frederick Lamb |
British Ambassador to Austria 1841–1846 |
Succeeded by The Viscount Ponsonby |
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