Monday 14 January 2013
17 Alexander Dunlop
Constituency : Greenock 1852 -1868
Alexander was a Radical of merchant stock.
He was a lawyer and acted as legal adviser to the United Free Chutch of Scotland, drawing up the Claim of Right in 1842.
In 1861 he took up the cause of the family of Sir Alexander Burnes who had been killed in Afghanistan twenty years earlier. They published his report showing that his advice on which side to back had been ignored by Melbourne's government and then not disclosed to the Commons. Alexander brought in a motion of censure , essentially an attack on his own Prime Minister who had been Foreign Sec at the time but it was ill-judged and even Disraeli spoke against it.
Alexander proposed the bill abolishing marriages at Gretna Green.
Alexander was disgusted with the Adullamites claiming that some Liberal MPs were as hostile to reform as the Tories.
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