About Robert Gordon
Lived 1791 – 1847 (aged 55–56). Robert Gordon was a British diplomat.
Sir Robert Gordon (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. From 1826 to 1828, he was Envoy Extraordinary to Brazil (during which time he negotiated the British-Brazilian Treaty of 1826), 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. 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.
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British diplomat, born 1791
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Robert Gordon was born in 1791.
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Robert Gordon died on 8 October 1847.
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Robert Gordon was a diplomat.
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Robert Gordon was British.
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