Alexander Burridge (Alex or Aleck) Purvis

Biographical Information: ALEXANDER BURRIDGE PURVIS (ALEX or ALECK) of Kinaldy, St Andrews, Fife, born 21st September 1854, baptised 31st October 1854 at Kinaldy, Cameron Parish, St Andrews, died 4th April 1928 in London, England, buried in Dunino Churchyard, Dunino, near St Andrews. Memorial pulpit in Dunino Church, Dunino. He served in India with the Horse Artillery in the 1870s, returning to England in 1880. Brigadier General Royal Artillery, he commanded The Clyde Volunteer Infantry Brigade (1906-07), served in World War I (1914-19) commanding the 17th and 35th Divisional Artillery (1914-15). Deputy Lieutenant for Fife. Bequeathed a scholarship tenable at Glenalmond College, Perthshire, Scotland, where he had been educated. He was given Kinaldy in his father's lifetime (January 1906), by consent of his first brother William Herbert Purvis (see 1.1.3.6.1.5. below), and sold it (1921) to his second surviving brother John Henry Purvis (see 1.1.3.6.1.9. below). Married (5th February 1894 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England), as her 2nd husband (she married 1st William Andros Warren (died before 1894), Major Royal Artillery, having no children), Mary Bertha Pitman (Bertha) (born c.1859, died 26th January 1931, buried in Dunino Churchyard, Dunino), daughter of the Rev. Edward Rogers Pitman, M.A., having no children.