Alexander Matheson CVO OBE DL FRPharmS is a pharmacist, businessman, and local politician from Stornoway.
[1] Matheson was elected to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar in 1974 and served as Convenor from 1982 until 1990.
He also contested the Western Isles parliamentary constituency for the Labour Party in 1979, finishing second to incumbent MP Donald Stewart.
[4] In 1993, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain[1] and a deputy lieutenant of the Western Isles.
[5] In 2023, Matheson was made a Freeman of the Western Isles, only the sixth person to receive this honour.