Alexander Veitch Lothian

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(c. 1850 – 1933) was a Scottish mathematician and geologist.

Life

His early life is unclear, but Lothian was operational as a teacher from at least the 1870s and acted as Interim Headmaster of

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Burgh School in 1879. He studied as a mature student at

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graduating MA in 1882. He taught Maths and Science at

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from 1881 to 1890. From 1891 to 1897 he lectured in Maths and Science at the E C Training College, and from 1897 was the Baxter Demonstrator in Geology at

. In 1898 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, A J Gunion Barclay,

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and David Fraser Harris. In 1911 he was living at Glendoane in the

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district of Glasgow.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1911–12 He died on 30 November 1933.

References

1933 deaths Academics from Edinburgh Academics of the University of Glasgow Scottish geologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-mathematician-stub