Robert Gordon (diplomat)

Sir Robert Gordon GCB GCH PC (1791 – 8 October 1847) was a British diplomat.

[1] 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.

[2] 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.

[1] He took leave twice during his stay in Vienna, with John Fiennes-Twisleton-Crampton (September to October 1842) and Arthur Magenis (31 July 1845 to April 1846) taking charge in his place.

Prince Albert bought the estate from his trustees a year later as a gift for his wife, Queen Victoria.