Alexander Philip FRSE (22 May 1858 – 21 January 1932) was a Scottish solicitor and campaigner for calendar reform.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1913[1][2] He was born in Portobello, Edinburgh[3] on 22 May 1858, the son of Reverend Alexander Philip,[1] minister of Cruden,[1] one of four brothers all of whom were ministers who left the established Church of Scotland to join the Free Church at the Disruption.

He began his legal apprenticeship at Webster, Will & Ritchie at 37 Queen Street[5] in Edinburgh, where the junior partner was a son of Charles Will, Provost of Brechin.

Following the death of Charles Will, Alexander Philip then became an assistant at C & J Will in Brechin, entering into a partnership with the Provost's other son, James Will in 1887.

He was a Justice of the Peace and honorary Sheriff Substitute for the county and in 1899 was appointed to joint secretary of the committee to fund-raise for Brechin Cathedral's restoration.

He divided these dates into two classes: Alexander Philip sought to resolve 3 identified deficiencies: His principal objections to the Invariable Calendar was the, in his opinion, "unnecessary amount of change" for the sake of symmetrical appearance with the rhythmical order of 31, 30, 30 or 30, 30, 31.