ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY Scottish divine, born at Leith, Aug. 24, 18o8, and died Dec. 20, 1884. Educated at St. Andrews and Edinburgh, he was classical tutor at the Blackburn Theological Academy (1827), minister of North College street church, Edinburgh (1834), editor of Kitto's Biblical Encyclopaedia (1861), a member of the committee ap pointed to revise the Old Testament (187o), and principal of the Edinburgh Theological Hall (1877).