Alexander Duncan

(1708-1795)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Duncan, Alexander, 1708-1795 NRA: Duncan Alexander (1708-1795) Church of Scotland minister LBT ID: AlDunca1795 VIAF ID: 28518975 LOC ID: n85246221	B/BAP: 1708 DIED: 1795-09-29
SOURCES: William Lamb Sime, Book of the Bazaar on Smailholm Men, Smailholm Parish and Smailholm Church (1896) 29-21, 70; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
He was minister of Smailholm in Roxburgshire from 1743 and is supposed to be the original of Joseph Cargil in St Ronan's Well.
REFERENCES TO Alexander Duncan: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 19