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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| GORDON'S HOSPITAL | Gordon's Hospital Gordon's Hospital Gordon's Hospital Robert Gordon's Hospital |
Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen 1818 P.O. [Post Office] Directory 1865-66 Courage's Survey of Aberdeen Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen |
075 | This Hospital is perhaps one of the finest views in the City, being situated at the north extremity of an extensive lawn or garden, and occupies the principal part of the grounds formerly belonging to the Monastry of the Dominican or Black Friars, in the School-hill, the right to which, the founder had secured in his own life time. The founder Robert Gordon. only lawful Son of Mr. Arthur Gordon, advocate, of the family of Straloch, having acquired a Competent fortune in the course of trade, as a merchant in Dantzic, returned to his native Country about the beginning of the 18th Century, and settled in Aberdeen. Although a man who had seen a good deal of the world and enjoyed the first society in the place, yet, having formed the noble design of founding an Hospital in the town, for the maintenance and Education of young boys, he denied himself for many years the Comforts and Conveniences of life, at home, that he might be better enabled to provide a fund adequate to the accomplishment of his favourite object. And in this he Completely Succeeded. On the 13th December 1729. he executed a deed of mortmain. by which he Conveyed his whole property to the Provost, Baillies, Town Council and the four Ministers of the Gospel, in Aberdeen, Commonly Called the Town's Ministers, in trust, as a fund for building the Hospital and for the maintenance and Education of Young boys, whose parents are indigent or unable to maintain them at Schools. and to put them to trades & Employments. By that deed the trustees are declared to be perpetual Patrons, and Governors of the Hospital for those benevolent purposes, And boys are entitled to be received unto it according to the following order -- |
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