Gordon, Robert, of Straloch
Biography: Cartographer, mathematician, composer, poet and geographer. Born Kinmundy, Aberdeenshire 1580. Educated in Aberdeen, and is noted as the first graduate of Marischal College,1597. Travelled to Paris 1598. Returned to Scotland by June 1601 and purchased the estate of Straloch. Justice of the Peace for Aberdeenshire 1636. Asked by Charles I in 1641 to alter and correct Timothy Pont's proof maps of various shires of Scotland for inclusion in Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Biography Date: 1580-1661
Biography References: LOC; DNB; Fasti 185;
Book List
| Owner (other form of name) |
Book Title |
Author |
Publication Place |
Date |
| Gordon, R. |
Theatrum Imperii Magnae Brittanniae; exactam regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adjacentium geographiam ob oculos ponens: una cum comitatibus, centuriis,... |
Speed, John |
London |
1616 |
| Gordon, Robert |
Theatrum orbis terrarum |
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon |
Amsterdam |
1644-45 |
| Gordon, Robert |
Scotia, quae est Europae liber XII. (Theatrum orbis terrarum, vol.5) |
Blaeu, Jan |
Amsterdam |
1654 |
| Gordon, Robert |
Epistolae. |
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20. |
Basel |
1492 |
| Gordon, Robert, of Straloch |
Protomathesis : Opus varium, ac scitu non minus utile quàm iucundum, nunc primùm in lucem foeliciter emissum. Cuius index universalis,... |
Fine, Oronce |
Paris |
1532 |
| Gordon, Robert, of Straloch |
The lawes and actes of Parliament, maid be King James the First, and his successours Kinges of Scotland. |
Scotland. Parliament. |
Edinburgh |
1597 |
