Robert Gordon of Straloch (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Gordon of Straloch (14 September 1580 - 18 August 1661) was a Scottish cartographer, noted as a poet, mathematician, antiquary, and geographer. The younger son of Sir John Gordon of Pitlurg, Knt, (died 1600) by his spouse Isabel, daughter of William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes, Robert Gordon was educated at the Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, of which he was the first graduate, and afterwards at the University of Paris. Sometime after 1608 he acquired the estate of Straloch, north of Aberdeen. After the death of his elder brother John Gordon without issue in 1619, Robert inherited his estate of Pitlurg.