AIRLIE, DAVID GRAHAM DRUMMOND, 5 or 7 Earl of. _b._ London 4 May 1826; succeeded 20 Aug. 1849; a representative peer for Scotland 18 March 1850 to death; F.R.G.S. 1859; K.T. 12 March 1862; high comr. to general assembly of Church of Scotland 1872–73. _d._ at an hotel in Denver city, Colorado 25 Sep. 1881. _bur._ Cortachy, Forfarshire 3 Nov. AITCHISON, GEORGE. _b._ Leyton, Essex 21 Dec. 1792; student at Royal academy; clerk of the works to St. Katherine’s dock company 1827, docks were opened 25 Oct. 1828; A.I.C.E. 1828; district surveyor of Woolwich 1844. _d._ Muscovy court, Trinity square, London 12 June 1861. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 569–71 (1862). AITCHISON, SIR JOHN (_3 son of Wm. Aitchison of Drummore, East Lothian, by Jane eld. dau. of James Mylne of Langridge, East Lothian_). _b._ 1789; ensign Scots fusilier guards 25 Oct. 1805; lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1837 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded Mysore division of Madras army 2 June 1845 to 1851; col. 72 foot 29 Dec. 1851 to 27 Aug. 1870; general 30 July 1860; col. Scots fusilier guards 27 Aug. 1870 to death; K.C.B. 21 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 March 1867. (_m._ 31 Oct. 1857 Ellen Elizabeth youngest dau. of Thomas Mayhew of Fairfield house, Suffolk). _d._ 4 Devonshire place, London 13 May 1875. AITKEN, DAVID. Educ. high school and univ. of Edinburgh; D.D. 8 July 1843; licensed by presbytery of Edin. 28 March 1821; minister of parish of Minto 14 Sep. 1827 to 16 Nov. 1864; lived in Edin. 1866 to death; corresponded with Georg Hegel the German philosopher; offered chair of church history in univ. of Edin. 1843; wrote an article on German literature in Edinb. Review, xlvi, 304–51 (1827); F.R.S. Edin. 1868. _d._ Charlotte square, Edin. 27 March 1875. AITKEN, JOHN. Member of Manchester geological society 1863, pres. twice; author of part of _Thomas Newbigging’s History of the forest of Rossendale_ 1868, and of many papers in geological periodicals. _d._ Clifton villas, Urmston 29 July 1884 aged 64.