Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet (1647–1704) was a Scottish courtier and politician.
James II made him a gentleman of his household, and took an interest in his scientific inventions.
[1] In April 1687 Gordon communicated to the Royal Society, by the king's command, Receipt to cure Mad Dogs, or Men or Beasts bitten by Mad Dogs (Phil.
The year after his death his widow erected a mausoleum to his memory on the site of the old church of Ogston, immediately to the east of the mansion of Gordonstoun.
An underground chamber at Gordonstoun was shown as his laboratory, and he lived in popular traditions of the neighbourhood as "Sir Robert the warlock".