Marriage and Death
Robert Gordon married in 1608, Catherine, daughter of Alexander Irvine of Lenturk, by whom he had nine sons and six daughters.
He died in 1661, and was interred in the family burial place at New Machar on 6 September. A portrait of him, by Jameson, the Scottish van Dyck, hangs in the great hall of Marischal College. He was the grandfather of another Robert Gordon, the founder of Robert Gordon Hospital, one of the forerunners of today's Robert Gordon University.
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