Letterfourie, a modern mansion in Rathven parish, Banffshire, 3 miles SSE of Buckie. It is the seat of Sir Robert Glendonwyn Gordon, ninth Bart. since 1625 (b. 1824; suc. 1861), who holds 1720 acres in the shire, valued at £1982 per annum. The seventh descendant of the youngest son of the second Earl of Huntly, he is premier baronet of Nova Scotia, his father having assumed the baronetcy after the death (1795) of its sixth holder, Sir William Gordon of Gordonstown, who was ninth in descent from the second son of the second Earl of Huntly.—Ord. Sur., sh. 96, 1876.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)