Alexander Roberts

He was educated at the grammar school and King's College, Aberdeen, where he graduated MA in March 1847, being the Simpson Greek prizeman.

[2] On 2 December 1852 he married Mary Anne Speid of Melgund (died 18 January 1911), and had fourteen children, of whom four sons and eight daughters survived him.

[1] Of note, his daughter Margaret Spinks Roberts married George Samuel Newth, Principal of New College, London.

Roberts' "Discussions on the Gospels" was published in 1862,[3] one of a series of works in which he maintained that Greek was the habitual speech of Jesus, a conclusion unpopular at the time.

[1] He co-operated with Sir James Donaldson as editor and part translator of the English versions of ecclesiastical writers published as the Ante-Nicene Christian Library (T. & T. Clark, 1867–72, 24 vols.