990 Alexander Sellar

Constituency  : Haddington  Burghs  1882-5, Glasgow  Partick  1885-90

Alexander  took  over  at  Haddington  after  the  resignation  of  Sir  David  Wedderburn.

Alexander  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  Oxford. He  became  a  barrister. In  1868  he  reported  on  secondary  education  to  the  Argyll  Commission. He  was  legal  secretary  to  the  Lord  Advocate  from  1870  to  1874.In  1873  he  published  a  manual  about  the  Education  Act's  application  to  Scotland.  In  1880  he  stood  for  Plymouth  Devonport.

Alexander switched  to  the  Liberal  Unionists  in  1886.

He  died  in  1890  aged  54.