Sir Alexander Gibson, with a legal courtesy title Lord Durie held as his father did (died 1656) was a Scottish judge.

Life

The eldest son of

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(died 1644) and his wife Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton, he was made a clerk of session with his father who was promoted to the Scottish bench in 1621. He opposed Charles I's Scottish religious policy based on the service-book, and protested against the royal proclamations of 1638. He petitioned the presbytery of Edinburgh against the bishops, November 1638, and was commissary-general of the forces raised to resist Charles I in the

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of 1640. Gibson was, however, knighted 15 March 1641, and made

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13 November 1641. He was made a commissioner of the Scottish exchequer 1 February 1645, and sat on the

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(1645–8). He became

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in 1646, when he took the title of Lord Durie. In 1649 Gibson was deprived of his offices by the

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, after joining the "

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" with the king. The diarist

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noted how Gibson and his wife were regarded as "malignants". He was one of the Scottish commissioners chosen to attend the English parliament in 1652 and 1654, and died in June 1656.

Family

Gibson was twice married; first to Marjory Hamilton, by whom he had one daughter; secondly to Cecilia, daughter of Thomas Fotheringham of Powrie, by whom he left Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, knt., commissioner to parliament in England for Fife and Kinross 1656–9, and for Fife 1659, who died at Durie 6 August 1661.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibson, Alexander Year of birth missing 1656 deaths Durie II