Donald Gordon

Donald Gordon received a degree in Classics from Glasgow University, subsequently moving from teaching into Director of Education for Selkirkshire and then Deputy Director of the Borders Regional Council from 1973–95. He founded the Trimotium Trust in 1988 and served as honorary secretary until 2019, running the museum, coordinating a series of walks, talks and outings, and editing the distinctive annual Trimontium Trumpet. He was awarded an MBE in 2008 ‘for services to the Trimontium Trust and to the community in Melrose, Scottish Borders’.