Alexander Lauder (architect)
Alexander Lauder may refer to: *Sir Alexander Lauder of Blyth (died 1513), provost of Edinburgh *Alexander Lauder (bishop), Scottish bishop *Alexander Lauder (chemist) (1870–1943) * Alex Lauder, Scottish footballer *Sir Alexander Lauder, 4th Baronet Sir Alexander Lauder of Fountainhall, 4th Baronet (6 November 1698 – 17 May 1730) succeeded to the baronetcy of his father, Sir John Lauder, 3rd Baronet in February 1728. He was made an Honorary Burgess of the City of Glasgow on 16 September of ...

Alexander Lauder Of Blyth
Sir Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Knt. (died 9 September 1513) was Provost of Edinburgh almost continually from 1500 to 1513. He was Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament, 1504–06, and an Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland. He appears to have been on terms of intimacy with the King, James IV, with whom he played cards and to whom he occasionally lent money. "He led the men of Edinburgh to join the King's host" at the battle of Flodden, and fell there.Whitson, Sir Thomas, LL.D., ''The Lord Provosts of Edinburgh, 1296 – 1932'', Edinburgh, 1932, p10 Family He was the second son of at least four of Sir Alexander Lauder of Haltoun, Knt., who died at Haltoun House, Ratho, Midlothian in July 1507. The ''Exchequer Rolls'' mention this Alexander Lauder, Burgess of Edinburgh, with his elder brother Sir George Lauder of Whitslaid, as 'senescallos', or stewards, of Kirkcudbrightshire, 'in their part'. Burgess and Provost of Edinburgh On 7 January 1498/9, Alexander Lauder, Burgess o ...
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Alexander Lauder (bishop)
Alexander de Lawedre (c. 1396 – 11 October 1440, in Edinburgh) was for the last five months of his life Bishop of Dunkeld, where he had previously been Archdeacon of Dunkeld, Archdeacon. Family There is confusion amongst writers and copyists with his parentage, with some giving him as a son of Alan de Lawedre of Haltoun. However a contemporary Supplication and, later, Keith, give him as "brother-german" to William de Lawedre, Bishop of Glasgow. Alexander Lauder was a son of Sir Robert de Lawedre of Edrington (d.1425) by his spouse Annabella. Career In 1413, he was still a student of Canon Law at the University of Paris, but was permitted to hold two incompatible benefices. In 1416 he had graduated with a B.C.L. at which time he held the perpetual vicarage of Roxburgh, and the Archdeaconry of Dunkeld, when he was collated to the church at Ratho, under the patronage of the Forresters, one of whom had married (before 1408) Sir Alexander Lauder of Haltoun, Knt. By 1418 he was record ...
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Alexander Lauder (chemist)
Alexander Lauder FRSE FIC (1870–1943) was a Scottish agricultural chemist. Life He was born in Greenock in 1870. He studied at the Andersonian College in Glasgow under Professor William Dittmar then at the University of Edinburgh. He began as an assistant lecturer at University College Bangor in Wales. He then returned to the University of Edinburgh to lecture in Agricultural Chemistry, also lecturing at the East of Scotland College of Agriculture. During this period he lived at 13 George Square in Edinburgh. In 1905 Lauder obtained a DSc from the University of Edinburgh. In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir James Johnston Dobbie, Alexander Crum Brown, Sir James Walker and Arthur Pillans Laurie. He served as the Society’s Secretary 1923 to 1928. He died in Greenock Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, ...
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Alex Lauder
Alexander Lauder (born 1899; date of death unknown) was a Scottish footballer who played at inside-forward for Port Vale in the Football League in the early 1920s. Career Lauder began his career with St Mirren, where he won the Scottish Junior Cup in 1917, setting up the winning goal against Renfrew in the final. He moved on to Ashfield before he signed with George W. Easton's Partick Thistle on 14 August 1918, following a spell with Ashfield. He made his debut in the Scottish Football League three days later, in a 1–1 draw at Airdrieonians. He scored his first goal for the club on 31 August, in a 1–0 win at Ayr United. He featured in the 1920–21 Scottish Cup success, scoring against Motherwell in the quarter-final and playing in all three semi-final matches against Heart of Midlothian, though he did not feature in the final triumph over Rangers at Celtic Park. He scored 11 goals in 73 games for the Jags, having been moved to inside-left to accommodate first William Mi ...
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