Alexander Speirs (died 5 October 1844) was a Scottish politician who sat in the

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from 1835 to 1841. Speirs was the son of Archibald Speirs and his wife Margaret Dundas, daughter of

Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas FRS (16 February 1741 – 14 June 1820), known as Sir Thomas Dundas, 2nd Baronet from 1781 to 1794, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1763 to 1794, after which he was raised to the p ...

.Elderslie House
/ref> In 1835 Speirs was elected

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for

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. He held the seat until 1841. He was

Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire The Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire is the representative of the British Crown covering a lieutenancy area of the county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. The Lord Lieutenant deals with many of the ceremonial functio ...

from 8 August 1838 until his death. Speirs married in 1836 Eliza Stewart Hagart, daughter of Thomas C. Hagart of Bantaskine and his wife Miss Stewart "of the Field" a well-known Glasgow beauty. Their son

Archibald Alexander Speirs Archibald Alexander Speirs (5 June 1840 – 30 December 1868) was a Scottish Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1865 to 1868. Life Speirs was the son of Alexander ...

was MP for Renfrewshire and their daughter Eliza married Colonel Alexander of Ballochmyle, M.P. for Ayrshire.

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1844 deaths Lord-Lieutenants of Renfrewshire Year of birth missing Place of birth missing Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 {{England-UK-MP-stub