Alexander Gordon (brewer)

Alexander Gordon and his brother, John, were sent to stay with their uncle William Gauld who was a farmer, teacher and preacher.

The brothers received a good education, perhaps at Logie Coldstone, and Alexander was apprenticed to a Mr Rattray in Dundee, where the family had another uncle.

[3][4] The firm continued in business, under the name A. Gordon and Co., until the early part of the First World War during which consumption of alcohol was restricted by the Defence of the Realm Act 1914.

[1] Gordon also paid to erect the Polhollick bridge near the village in 1892, to replace an earlier ferry, after witnessing a drowning at the site.

[6] Ten years after Gordon's death his estate gave money to erect another footbridge near Ballater, the Cambus O' May bridge.