DINGWALL-FORDYCE, Alexander, Captain
General Notes: "Captain Alexander Dingwall Fordyce, R.N., the present representative of the family (1854), succeeded to the estates of Culsh and Brucklay, on the death of his elder brother Arthur, in December 1843. He is third son of William Dingwall Fordyce of Techmuiry (eldest son of the commissary) and Margaret Ritchie, his wife. He entered the navy at an early age, served actively afloat in most parts of the world for twenty-one years, was present at the capture of Gluckstadt on the Elbe in 1814, and the battle of Algiers in 1816. He attained the rank of commander in 1841, was appointed deputy-lieutenant of Aberdeenshire in 1845, and in 1847 was elected M.P. for his native city of Aberdeen, and continued so till the dissolution in July 1852. He married in 1835, Barbara Thom, daughter of James Thom, Esq. of Aberdeen, and by her has a family of four sons and four daughters. His younger brother, George Dingwall Fordyce, entered the bar in 1832, and was appointed an advocate depute in May 1851. He married another daughter of the said James Thom." Alexander married Barbara THOM, daughter of James THOM and Rachel SMITH, on 14 July 1835. (Barbara THOM was born on 28 January 1812 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and died on 12 May 1863 in Aberdeen, Scotland.) |