Alexander Lockhart Simpson

Alexander Lockhart Simpson (1785–1861) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1849/50.

In 1803 he was a student at the Selkirk Hall of the Secession Church under Professor Lawson.

[2] In October 1812 he was ordained as minister of Kirknewton under the patronage of George Earl of Morton.

[1] In 1836, the University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity.

[1] The elders of his church included Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank.