Alexander Christison

He was the eldest of seven children to a tenant sheep-farmer in the Lammermuir Hills.

[1] After a local education he began employment as the local schoolteacher for the parish of Edrom before attending the University of Edinburgh to study Classics, graduating in 1775.

[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1800 his main proposer being the physician, James Gregory.

[4] He died in Edinburgh on 25 June 1820 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the city centre.

He is buried in the plot of Professor George Dunbar at the north-west section of the western extension.