Alexander Hastie (Lord Provost)

Alexander Hastie MP (1805–1864) was a 19th-century Scottish Whig politician who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1846 to 1848.

[2] He was one of the few people to simultaneously have been Lord Provost and MP for the same city.

[6] He worked for the family firm of R. Hastie & Co, based first at Somerville Place[7] and later at 13 John Street in Glasgow.

At the time of his being Lord Provost in 1846 he lived at 212 Bath Street in the Glasgow city centre.

He had an attack of epileptic seizure at home in Bath Street in January 1864.