ALEXANDER FINDLATER

• Born: September 4, 1754
• Died: December 3, 1839
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• Profession: Collector Excise

Alexander Findlater was a friend and colleague of Robert Burns and also his immediate superior, as Supervisor, in the Excise service. He knew the poet very well and was a great advocate for Burns after his death and in response to biographies by authors such as Robert Heron, Allan Cunningham and James Currie.