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Alexander Dingwall Fordyce was born in Aberdeen, the son of a merchant, and graduated AM from Marischal College, Aberdeen in 1833. He became a merchant himself in Canada, but also took a keen interest in genealogy and the history of Aberdeen. He was not a member of the New Spalding Club but supported their work and contributed texts to their collection from his own library. He died around 1900.Alexander Dingwall Fordyce was born in Aberdeen, the son of a merchant, and graduated AM from Marischal College, Aberdeen in 1833. He became a merchant himself in Canada, but also took a keen interest in genealogy and the history of Aberdeen. He was not a member of the New Spalding Club but supported their work and contributed texts to their collection from his own library. He died around 1900.
Alexander Macdonald Munro was born in Aberdeen in 1860 and educated at Robert Gordon?s Hospital in the city. At the age of seventeen, after leaving school, he joined the local council as an employee, working in the City Chamberlain?s department. He had a keen interest in antiquarian history, and wrote a good deal about the history of Aberdeen?s administration. He joined the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and was a member of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society. He became City Chamberlain in 1905, and died in 1911.
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