Alexander Duncan (East India Company officer)

General Alexander Duncan (1780–1859) was a Scottish officer of the East India Company army in Bengal.

[2] When his father got the position as Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University the family moved to Adam Square.

It was attached to the Narbada Field Force, and he was commended for his conduct in the action at Sohagpur (Shahdol) in 1819, by Sir Richard Jenkins, Resident at Nagpur.

[7] While most of the Army marched through the Bolan Pass, Duncan's division remained behind with the lines of communication troops and the forces in Sindh.

[4] Duncan originally retired to Edinburgh, close to his family, living at 13 Abercromby Place in the Second New town.

Gattonside House was sold by his son Colonel Duncan, of the 43rd Bengal Native Infantry, to Robert Blair Maconochie.