Alexander Lawrence (ca 1847 – August 4, 1899
) was a
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
-born farmer and political figure in
Manitoba. He represented
Morden from 1888 to 1892 in the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a
Liberal.
He was born in
Kinross-shire
The County of Kinross or Kinross-shire is a historic county and registration county in eastern Scotland, administered as part of Perth and Kinross since 1930. Surrounding its largest settlement and county town of Kinross, the county borders Per ...
, the son of John Lawrence, and was educated in Scotland and
England. In 1880, Lawrence married Margaret Bond.
He died in
Gretna, Manitoba at the age of 52.
References
Year of birth uncertain
1899 deaths
Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs
Scottish emigrants to Canada
19th-century Canadian farmers
People from Perth and Kinross
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