Family and Education
b. c. 1690, 2nd s. of John Alexander, Glasgow merchant, by Janet, da. of Alexander Cuninghame of Craigends, Renfrew. m. bef. 1721, Marianne Louisa de la Croix, of a Huguenot fam., 3s. 1da.
Offices Held
Director, Royal Bank of Scotland 1730 – 60, burgess of Edinburgh 1733; trustee for fisheries and manufactures 1738; ld. prov. Edinburgh 1752 – 54; commr. for forfeited estates 1755–60.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Edinburgh.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Web Title
ALEXANDER, William (c.1690-1761)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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