Alexander Low

Alexander Low, Lord Low (1845–1910) was a Scottish lawyer and judge who served as a Senator of the College of Justice.

Life Alexander Low was born on 23 October 1845, the son of Jessy Turnbull of Abbey St. Bathans and her husband, James Low of The Laws, Berwickshire. He was educated at Cheltenham College then studied Moral Science at the University of St Andrews and St John's College, Cambridge. He then began a law course at the University of Edinburgh. He passed the Scottish Bar as an advocate in 1870.

In 1875 he was working as an advocate from 1 Queensferry Street in Edinburgh's West End.

In 1889 he was made Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty. In November 1890 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice.

In 1895 he was living at 12 Drumsheugh Gardens, a fine Victorian townhouse.

He resigned on grounds of ill-health in 1904 and died at the family home of The Laws on 14 October 1910. He was buried at Whitsome churchyard.

Publications Editor of the Scottish Law Reporter.

Family He married Annie Adele Mackenzie (1854-1925), daughter of Donald Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie, on 23 December 1875, and they had three children.