Robert Gordon (diplomat)
Sir Robert Gordon was a British diplomat.
Gordon was a younger son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo and a brother of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. 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. He took leave twice during his stay in Vienna, with John Fiennes-Twisleton-Crampton and Arthur Magenis taking charge in his place.
In 1830, he acquired a long-term lease of Balmoral Castle. He died in 1847 as the result of choking on a fish bone. Prince Albert bought the estate from his trustees a year later as a gift for his wife, Queen Victoria.
