Todd, Alexander Bruce

Education

Student United College 1843-1844 Gk. 1; Lat. 1.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 16.2.1821 son of David Tod, painter, St Andrews and Cecilia Bruce. [Artist]

Career

Possibly also at Edinburgh University - 1848-1850 2 - 3 Lit. and New College, Edinburgh - divinity student 1853-1854.3.

A cabinet maker by trade. Taught in Jamaica. Became a Free Church minister and went to New Zealand in 1859. Held charges at Tokomairiro, Oamaru and Dunedin. [Teacher, minister]

Death

Died at Dunedin [New Zealand] 16.8.1903.

Sources

  • W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (1914)
  • G.H. Scholefield, Dictionary of New Zealand biography. 2v. (Wellington, 1940)
  • St Andrews Citizen 3.10.1903