Alexander Hastie (Lord Provost)

Alexander Hastie MP (1805–1864) was a 19th-century Scottish Whig politician who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1846 to 1848. He was MP for Glasgow from 1847 to 1848 and from 1852 to 1857. He was one of the few people to simultaneously have been Lord Provost and MP for the same city.

He was noted as an anti-slavery activist.

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