1. Alexander Crombie FRS was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher.
10 Facts About Alexander Crombie
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Alexander Crombie moved by 1790 to London, where he ran an academy in Highgate, identified as a Unitarian school.
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From 1796 to 1798, Alexander Crombie officiated at the Presbyterian Meeting House at Southwood Lane.
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Alexander Crombie then moved to be principal of a school in Greenwich, Kent.
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Alexander Crombie died in York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, on 11 June 1840.
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Alexander Crombie changed his view in the direction of necessitarianism after reading Joseph Priestley's Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated.
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Alexander Crombie was spurred into print by reasoning from James Gregory's Philosophical and Literary Essays, and his 1793 work draws heavily on Priestley's arguments.
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In Greenwich, Alexander Crombie lived in Maize Hill, a large mansion.
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Sir Walter James, 1st Baronet resided there, and Alexander Crombie bought it from him.
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Alexander Crombie disposed of the site by dividing it into lots sold piecemeal.