NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bower, Alexander, fl. 1804-1830 DNB: Bower, Alexander (1774-1837), writer and minister of the Relief church LBT ID: AlBower1837 VIAF ID: 15968265 LOC ID: nr90009993 | B/BAP: 1774-03-18 DIED: 1837-02-23 |
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The son of a weaver, he was educated at Edinburgh University and employed as a cataloguer
Advocates' Library and Edinburgh University Library; he published a biography of James
Beattie (1804) and history of Edinburgh University (1817-30). | |