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Alexander Macduff, Esq., was born at Springfield Cottage, near 
Perth, on the 5th December 1816, and was the son of Alexander 
Macduff of Bonhard. He received the rudiments of his education 
at the Grammar School of Perth, and also at the Perth Academy, 
where he obtained the first prize for general proficiency during the 
session 1831-2. He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1832, 
and, after attending the usual course of instruction, he began the 
study of law in 1835. He passed as writer to the Signet in 1839, 
and continued in the profession in partnership with Mr Welsh of 
Collin till 1845, when he retired to Perthshire, where he lived upon 
his estate from 1847 to 1860, discharging the various important 
duties which our landed proprietors are called upon to perform. In 
1859 he acted as Secretary to the Royal Commission on Roads and 
Bridges in Scotland. In 1860 he took up his residence in Edin- 
burgh, and was appointed Vice-Convener and Secretary of the 
Church Endowment Scheme. In 1865 he was elected Secretary 
to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, and he had 
hardly entered upon the duties of his office when he was attacked 
with pleurisy, and died at Edinburgh on the 21st March 1866, in 
the 50th year of his age. 
William Bonar was born in Edinburgh on the 3d January 
1798, and was the third son of Andrew Bonar of Kimmerghame and 
Warriston, banker in Edinburgh. After receiving his classical 
education at the High School of Edinburgh, he went through the 
usual course of study at the University. 
In 1817 he was admitted a partner of the bank of Messrs 
Ramsay, Bonar, & Co., and he continued to discharge its duties till 
it was merged in the Bank of Scotland. 
Mr Bonar was one of a body of excellent men in Edinburgh who 
employ their wealth and their leisure in promoting and managing 
the many religious and charitable institutions by which Edinburgh 
is distinguished. He was a man of fervent piety, and along with 
his brother, Mr Andrew Bonar, now the only survivor of four 
brothers, he employed a missionary to look after the ignorant and 
neglected poor. In the same good cause, Mr Bonar wrote several 
religious tracts during his residence in Edinburgh. 
Having purchased Warriston from his brother, Mr James Bonar, 
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