Name Alexander Smollett Role Fictional Character | Creator Robert Louis Stevenson | |
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Played by Philip Glenister, Basil Sydney, Rik Battaglia, Konstantin Grigoryev, Malcolm Stoddard Similar Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, Ben Gunn, Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones | ||
Alexander Smollett (1801 – 1881) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunbartonshire from 1841 to 1859.
Life
He was born at Cameron House, Bonhill in Dunbarton on 29 November 1801. He was the son of Admiral John Rouett Smollett (1767–1842) and Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of Patrick Boyle of Shewalton.
His father married in 1800 and had two sons (Alexander and Patrick Boyle) and four daughters. The eldest daughter Elizabeth (his sister) married Charles Villiers Stuart, younger brother of Lord Stuart of Decies.
He appears in 1827 as an advocate. In the 1830s he was working in Edinburgh as an advocate and living at 14 Gloucester Place, a fine end-terraced townhouse in the Stockbridge area.
In 1835 he is listed as a member of the Highland and Agriculture Society of Scotland.
In 1844 he appears on the committee of the Glasgow, Dunbarton and Loch Lomond Railway Company.
He died in the same house on 25 February 1881, and was buried in the Smollett family mausoleum in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire.