Alexander Neil Somerville (1813–1889) was a Scottish minister and evangelist, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly for the Free Church of Scotland at Inverness in 1886/87.
[1] He was born in Edinburgh on 29 January 1813, the eldest of eight children of Alexander Somerville, a wine-merchant living at 65 York Place,[3] and his wife, Elizabeth Munro.
The visit to Dunedin and Otago in New Zealand in May 1878 proved particularly influential in promoting the Free Presbyterian movement in that country.
Following his year in office he returned to evangelism, this time concentrating on Jewish areas in Hungary and southern Russia.
He married 10 June 1841, Isabella Mirrlees (died 3 July 1900), daughter of James Ewing of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and had issue —