Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet (1696–1772) was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the

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from 1715 to 1722. Gordon was the eldest son of

Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet (1647–1704) was a Scottish courtier and politician. Life Born 7 March 1647, was the eldest son of Sir Ludovick Gordon, 2nd Baronet of Gordonstoun in Drainie, Elginshire, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter and ...

of Gordonstown and his second wife Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of Sir William Dunbar, 1st Baronet of Hempriggs, Caithness. His father died in 1704 and he succeeded to the

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. His mother married secondly James Sutherland afterwards Dunbar who was

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for Caithness from 1710 to 1713. Gordon was elected MP for Caithness at the 1715 general election. As the constituency was only represented in alternate parliaments, there was no election in 1722, and Gordon never stood again. Gordon married Agnes Maxwell, eldest daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 4th Baronet., of Calderwood, Lanark on. 26 April 1734 and had four sons and one daughter. He died on 8 January 1772 and was succeeded by his son

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Sir Robert, 4th Baronet 1696 births 1772 deaths British MPs 1715–1722 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia