Robert Gordon

In the personality of Robert Gordon, love of art was as characteristic as achievement in his own profession. A highly successful banker both in New York and London, an eminent member of the most powerful house in international finance, the collection of pictures, the hearing of good music, and the cultivation of flowers were the avocations nearest his heart. He was an amateur in the highest sense, and his New York household is remembered by older Centurions, no less for its collections than for its atmosphere of genial hospitality to all that was best in art. One of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum, he had lived during the last third of his life, through the necessities of his profession, in England, where he died in his eighty-ninth year. But his long absence never broke the ties of affection for New York or for the Century Club, to whose affairs the conversation always quickly drifted when a traveling fellow-member was welcomed in his foreign home.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1919 Century Association Yearbook