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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Rev. Thomas Alexander
Rev. Thomas Alexander , sometime minister of the Woodlands Presbyterian church, was born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1824. He received his primary education in his native town, and subsequently became a student at Glasgow University, where he went through his arts course, and finally studied theology at the Free Church College of Edinburgh. In 1855, Mr. Alexander was licensed by the Presbytery of Ayr, and was appointed to a Free Church station in the town of Dumfries, where he ministered for five years. He sailed from Glasgow by the ship “Electric” for Port Chalmers, and on arrival in Otago was sent to Riverton to take temporary charge; and in 1864 was ordained and inducted to the Woodlands church, where he worked diligently until 1887. Mr. Alexander was married, in 1867, to Alice, daughter of Mrs Jane Taylor, of Dunedin, and died in the year 1900.