Alexander, WILLIAM LINDSAY, D.D., LL.D.

Alexander, WILLIAM LINDSAY, D.D., LL.D., an eminent scholar and divine of the Scottish Congregational Church, was born at Leith, 24th August 1808, and died at Pinkieburn, near Edinburgh, 20th December 1884. He studied at Edinburgh, St Andrews, and Glasgow. He became classical tutor and afterwards president of Blackburn Theological Seminary (1828–31), and in 1832, minister of a chapel in Liverpool. In 1835 he removed to Edinburgh, where as a preacher of no ordinary power he laboured for forty-two years. He was a member of the Bible Revision Committee, and principal of the Theological Hall in connection with the Congregational Church in Scotland. He published many volumes of sermons, pamphlets, lectures, and addresses; was editor of the Congregational Magazine; and edited a new issue of Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature (1870). See his Life by Ross (1887).