Sir Alexander Don, 6th baronet (baptised 5 May 1780 – 11 April 1826), of Newton Don, Kelso, Scottish Borders, was a Scottish landowner, an officer in the British Army and a Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Roxburghshire from 1814 until 1826.
Alexander was a captain in the Roxburgh militia in 1802 and from 1803 to 1810, he lived the high life in Verdun in France.[2]
He served in the Berwick Yeoman Cavalry from 1810 until 1813. He served as captain in the Roxburgh Yeomanry from 1814 and was promoted to major in 1821.[1]
On Kirkwood's map of Edinburgh dated 1817 he is marked as owner of West Coates House and a large area south of it (now an area north of Haymarket Station).[3] In 1820 he employed Robert Smirke to rebuild his mansion at Newton Don.[2]
Political careeredit
He was a Catholic-sympathising Tory politician, and was elected to represent Roxburghshire on the Buccleuch interest on 25 July 1814 (at his second attempt) and represented the burgh until 11 April 1826.[1]
He attended the Parliament erratically and made no major speeches.[1]
Personal lifeedit
Sir Alexander married first in 1809, Lucretia Montgomerie (died 1817), daughter of George Montgomerie (formerly Molineux) of Garboldisham Hall, Norfolk. She died without any surviving children.[1]
In 1824, Sir Alexander married Grace Jane Stein (1802-1878), who was twenty-two years his junior. Grace was a daughter of John Stein, a banker and distiller, of 37 Heriot Row, Edinburgh.[4] Before his sudden death, they were the parents of two children:[1]
He died very suddenly of a stomach complaint at Newton Don House near Kelso on 11 April 1826. After his death Grace married Sir James Maxwell Wallace of Ainderby Hall near Northallerton. On his sons departure to Australia, his estates passed to John Wauchope of Edmonstone and Niddrie, who thereafter took the name of Don-Wauchope.[1]
Escott, Margaret (2009), "DON, Sir Alexander, 6th bt. (?1780–1826), of Newton Don, Berwick", in Fisher, D.R. (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820–1832, Cambridge University Press
External linksedit
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Alexander Don
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