Alexander Crombie

The Rev Dr Alexander Crombie (17 July 1762 Aberdeen – 11 June 1840, York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, England) was a Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher.

He studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen under James Beattie, gaining a MA. About 1798, he gained a LLD. He moved in the early 19th century to the London area, where he ran a school in Highgate and then one in Greenwich, Kent.

By 1822, he was resident in the fashionable Regent's Park area of London, but he inherited a substantial property in Scotland - Thornton Castle near Phesdo.

He died in York Terrace, London on 11 June 1840 and was buried at St Marylebone Church.

Crombie was married at least twice:

By his first marriage, he had a son:

1. Alexander Crombie (1784-), a barrister-at-law of Lincoln's Inn

He remarried, on 6 March 1798, at Cluny, Aberdeenshire, to Jane Nory (c. 1773–1859); the couple had children including:

1. Lewis Crombie (1800-1880), a solicitor
2. Mary Crombie (born 1802)
3. Jane Crombie (1804–1846); married on 1 February 1823 at St George's, Hanover Square to Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Henry Algernon Eliot (son of Francis Perceval Eliot)
4. Thomas Crombie (born 31 December 1806), a major in the 60th Regiment of Foot
5. William Crombie (born 1808)
6. Peter Crombie (born 2 January 1809)