Sir Alexander Don, sixth baronet

(1780-1826)

LBT ID: AlDon1826	B/BAP: 1780 DIED: 1826-03-11
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; thePeerage.com
The son of the fifth baronet (d. 1815); educated at Eton College, he was MP for Roxburghshire (1814-26). He was an acquaintance of Sir Walter Scott (who described him as a bon vivant) and William Jerdan.
REFERENCES TO Sir Alexander Don, sixth baronet: Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 1 August 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 6 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1815 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter V 1818 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter VI 1818 Found 1: ¶ 12 Chapter IX 1819 Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 91 Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter IX 1826 Found 5: ¶ 23 ¶ 24 ¶ 29 ¶ 30 ¶ 41 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Literary List Found 1: ¶ 20