DAVIDSON, Rev. Alexander Dyce. b. Aberdeen 8 May 1807; ed. at Aberdeen Univ.; minister of the South ch. Aberdeen 3 Aug. 1832, of the West ch. 5 May 1836, of Free ch. Belmont st. 28 Jany. 1844, of a new Free ch. in Union st. 14 Feb. 1869 to death; author of Lectures on the book of Esther 1859; Lectures and sermons edited by F. Edmond 1872. d. Aberdeen 27 April 1872. Wylies’ Disruption Worthies (1881) 211–14.
DAVIDSON, Archibald (son of Rev. T. Davidson of the Tolbooth church, Edinburgh). b. 1805; ed. at high sch. Edin. and Univs. of Glasgow and St. Andrews; called to Scotch bar 1827; senior advocate depute 1846; sheriff of Kincardine 1847, of Aberdeen 10 Jany. 1848, of Edinburgh 10 Oct. 1865, of the Lothians and Peebles to Feb. 1886; arranged for publication Lord Cockburn’s Memorials of his time 1856. d. Edinburgh 27 March 1886.
DAVIDSON, Cuthbert. Entered Bengal army 1827; lieut. col. 49 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1857 to 1860; lieut. col. 51 Bengal N.I. 1860 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. 2 Aug. 1862.
DAVIDSON, Duncan. b. 1800; M.P. for co. Cromarty 30 June 1826 to 24 July 1830 and 20 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; lord lieutenant of co. Ross 18 Feb. 1879 to death; married five times. d. Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1881.
DAVIDSON, Ellis A. Author of Linear Drawing 1868; Drawing and design without instruments 1869; Elements of practical perspective 1870; Model drawing from solid forms 1871; Boy joiner and model maker 1874; House painting and graining 1875, 3 ed. 1880; Amateur house carpenter 1875 and many other books. d. 29 Clarendon gardens, Maida hill, London 9 March 1878.
DAVIDSON, George Henry. Music publisher at 19 Peters hill, Doctors Commons, London; published Universal Melodist 2 vols. 1847–9; Instrumental Gems 4 vols. 1851; Davidson’s Recitations and Comic songs 1854; sold his business to the Music publishing company limited for £20,000, 1860; author of The Thames and Thanet Guide 1838, 6 ed. 1850. d. 26 Clifton road, Peckham 4 July 1875 in 75 year.
DAVIDSON, Harriet (2 child of Hugh Miller the geologist 1802–56). b. Cromarty, Scotland 25 Nov. 1839; ed. at Edin. and London; author of Isabel Jardine’s History 1867; Christian Osborne’s Friends 1869; contributed poems and stories to the Adelaide newspapers and to Chambers’s Journal. (m. 1863 Rev. John Davidson, minister of Chalmer’s church, Adelaide, who d. 1881). d. Adelaide 23 Dec. 1883.
DAVIDSON, James (eld. son of James Davidson of Tower Hill, London, stationer). b. Tower Hill 15 Aug. 1793; lived at Secktor near Axminster, Devon 1822 to death; author of The British and Roman remains in the vicinity of Axminster 1833; History of Axminster church 1835; History of Newenham Abbey, Devon 1843; Axminster during the civil war 1851; A glossary to the obsolete and unused words and phrases of the Holy Scriptures in the authorised English version 1850; Bibliotheca Devoniensis, a catalogue of printed books relating to the county of Devon 1852 and Supplement 1862; Notes on the antiquities of Devonshire 1861. d. Secktor house, Axminster 29 Feb. 1864. G. P. R. Pulman’s book of the Axe (1875) 12, 47, 677.
DAVIDSON, John. b. Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire 29 March 1804; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; transcriber for the Spalding Club 20 years; arranged the Burgh records of Dundee 1865; wrote a number of pamphlets on various political subjects; a small vol. containing many poems and prose pieces by him was published at Aberdeen 1872. d. 28 Sep. 1871.
DAVIDSON, John. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; surgeon in the navy 29 July 1839; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; M.R.C.P. 1860; inspector general of hospitals 4 July 1866 to 26 Oct. 1874 when he retired; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Bosworth lodge, Willesden lane, London 31 Jany. 1881 aged 63.