Alexander Crombie

Alexander Crombie FRS (1760–1840) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher. Biography He was born in Aberdeen on 17 July 1760, the son of Thomas Crombie. He studied at Marischal College. There he was taught divinity by James Beattie, gaining a M.A. in 1778. In 1794 his college awarded him an honorary doctorate (LL.D.). Crombie was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Aberdeen, but instead became a teacher. He moved by 1790 to London, where he ran an academy in Highgate, identified as a Unitarian school. Charles Jerram was an assistant there. From 1796 to 1798, Crombie officiated at the Presbyterian Meeting House at Southwood Lane. The congregation had diminished in the time of Joseph Towers, who left in 1778. The meetings ceased in 1798.