Robert Gordon (diplomat)
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Sir Robert Gordon, GCB, GCH, PC (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. From 1826-28, he was Envoy Extraordinary to Brazil, to the Ottoman Empire from 1828-31 and to Austria from 1841-47.
In 1830, he acquired a long-term lease of Balmoral Castle and entertained Queen Victoria and Prince Albert there shortly before his death in 1847 (from choking on a fish bone). Albert later bought the estate from his trustees a year later as a gift for his wife.
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| Preceded by Sir Frederick Lamb |
British Ambassador to Austria 1841–1846 |
Succeeded by The Viscount Ponsonby |
