Duncan, Alexander

Education

Student United College 1746-1750. (Secondar).

M.A. 7.5.1750.

Won silver arrow competition in 1749.

Birth/childhood

Born 26.8.1733 son of James Duncan, professor of philosophy, St Salvator’s College and Anne Nairn. [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Career

Inherited estate of Craigtoun through his mother in 1748 in which year both his parents died. [Landowner]

Advocate 1755. [Lawyer]

Death

Died 23.1.1799.

Sources

  • F.J. Grant, The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943 (Edinburgh, 1944) (SRS145).