Alexander Hare McLintock CBE (14 April 1903 – 29 May 1968) was a New Zealand teacher, university lecturer, historian and artist.
He completed his degree in 1939 and two years later, published The Establishment of Constitutional Government in Newfoundland, 1783–1832, a book based on his thesis.
One of these was the well regarded The History of Otago, published in 1949 and which won the Ernest Scott Prize from the University of Melbourne.
The same year, an opportunity arose to secure the chair of history at Canterbury University College; however, much to his disappointment he missed out and thereafter held a disregard for the academic establishment.
In 1952, he finished lecturing at Otago, having switched subjects to English a few years previously, and took a post as parliamentary historian.
[1] The encyclopedia was published in November 1966, selling its entire print run of 34,000 copies within months.
[3] McLintock was involved in other work; paintings and etchings were exhibited in Europe, including at the Royal Academy of Arts.