GORDON, George Professor of Hebrew, King's College Aberdeen ^{2 3}

   Another name for George was GORDON, George Professor of Oriental Languages in Kings College, Mr.^{5 6 7}

  General Notes:

'PROFESSORS OF HEBREW
1693, March 1. Mr. George Gordon.
See Minute of 23rd February, 1719.
" Born 23rd May, 1673; 12th September, 1705, married Margaret, daughter of Mr. George Fraser." Gordon. She died
20th November, 1753. " William by the grace of God king of Great Brittain France and Ireland, defender of the faith, to all our subjects whom it effeirs:
Forasmuch as we, considering that by a signature under our royall hand dated the 29th Aprile 1695 years, did, for the advancement of learning and religion, mortifie and dispone in favours of the principall proffessors and masters of the
university of Aberdeen the soume of 300 sterling yearly, to be uplifted out of the rents and revenues of the bishopricks of our kingdom, faln in our hands by the abolition of Episcopacy . . . and being also informed that a part of the said pounds may be more usefully bestowed for the ends aforesaid, as a sallary to a proffessor of the orientall languages, for his encouragement to teach the same in the said university; therefor witt ye us to have allocat . . . the remaining soume of 1200 merks thereof to be settled on Mr. George Gordon (to whom we have granted a presentation to be professor of the orientall languages of the forsaid university of Aberdeen) and that as a yearly fee and sallary to him for teaching and professing the saids languages." Grant by King William III., 1st March, 1698/9; confirmed by subsequent grant of 3Oth November, 1699.'

"1701, May 8. The masters nominate the Subprincipal (Mr. George Fraser) and the Professor of Hebrew (Mr. George Gordon : Dean of Faculty of Divinity for one year) delegates for election of a Professor of Divinity. Mr. Thomas Hoog, minister at Campvere, is chosen, 8th October."

'1703, April 14. Mr. Hoog having "utterly declined," the masters nominate the Humanist (Mr. Alexander Gordon) and the Professor of Hebrew (Dean of Faculty of Divinity for one year) delegates for the same purpose...'

from Officers and Graduates ¹

George married Margaret FRASER on 12 September 1705.¹ (Margaret FRASER was born about 1680 and died on 20 November 1753 ¹.)