Sir Alexander GIBSON II of Durie
- Born: 1598
- Died: Jun 1656 at age 58
Noted events in his life were:
• Biography. The eldest son, Sir Alexander Gibson, younger of Durie, was appointed one of the clerks of session on 25th July 1632, and as such was one of the clerks of parliament. On the attempt of Charles I. To impose the service book on the people of Scotland , he protested, with others, at the market cross of Edinburgh against the royal proclamations, on 8th July and 22d September 1638. He was also one of those who presented the petition against the bishops to the presbytery of Edinburgh and the General Assembly, in November of that year. As clerk of parliament he refused to read the royal warrant for the prorogation of parliament from 14th Nov. 1639 to 2d June 1640. In the latter year he was appointed commissary-general of the forces raised to resist King Charles I. On 13th November 1641, he was nominated lord clerk register by the king, who, on the 15th of the previous March, had conferred on him the honour of knighthood. He was also appointed one of the commissioners for the plantation of kirks. On 1sat February 1645, he was named one of the commissioners of exchequer, and on 8th March following, a supernumerary member of the committee of estates; as also of the committees of a similar nature appointed in 1646, 1647, and 1648. On 2d July 1646, he was admitted a lord of session, on the favourable report of that court to the king. Having joined "the 'Engagement," he was deprived of his offices by the act of classes, on 13th February, 1649, and in the following year, as an entry, in Lamont's Diary states, "both Durie and his ladie was debarred from the table because of their malignancie." In August 1652, he was one of the commissioners chosen for Scotland to attend the parliament of England ; and he again went to England in January 1654. He died in June 1656.
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• Occupation: lord clerk register, 1641. On 13th November 1641, he was nominated lord clerk register by the king, who, on the 15th of the previous March, had conferred on him the honour of knighthood. He was also appointed one of the commissioners for the plantation of kirks.
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