Sir Alexander Cumming, 1st Baronet

Sir Alexander Cumming, 1st Baronet (c.1670–1725) of Culter, Aberdeen, was a Scottish landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1709 to 1722.

[1] He qualified at Leyden on 30 December 1695, aged 25 and returned to Scotland and attracted prominent clients to his practice.

He was Commissioner of Justiciary for the Highlands in 1701 and 1703 and captain of foot in the Earl of Mar’s regiment from 1702 to 1704.

His wife Elizabeth died in 1709 and he married as his second wife Elizabeth Dennis, daughter of William Dennis of Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire on 10 September 1710[2] Cumming was elected Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire at a by-election on 18 January 1709.

[3] Cumming died on 7 February 1725, in debt as a result of the South Sea Bubble.