ALICE MAUD MARY, Princess of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (_3 child and 2 dau. of Queen Victoria_). _b._ Buckingham palace 25 April 1843. _m._ at Osborne 1 July 1862 Frederick Wm. Louis Charles afterwards Louis iv grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, he was _b._ 12 Sep. 1837; founded the Women’s Union for nursing the sick and wounded in war called after her name. _d._ the palace Darmstadt 14 Dec. 1878. _bur._ in the mausoleum at Rosenhohe near Darmstadt 18 Dec. _Alice grand duchess of Hesse, biographical sketch of_ 1884, _2 portraits_; _Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort v_, 252 (1880), _portrait_. ALISON, SIR ARCHIBALD, 1 Baronet (_younger son of Rev. Archibald Alison 1757–1839 prebendary of Sarum_). _b._ Kenley, Salop 29 Dec. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate 8 Dec. 1814; advocate depute 1823–30; wrote his History of Europe 1 Jany. 1829 to 7 June 1842; sheriff of Lanarkshire Dec. 1834 to death; lived at Possil house near Glasgow 1835 to death; lord rector of Marischal college, Aberdeen March 1845, beating Macaulay by 48 votes; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 15 Jany. 1852; created baronet 25 June 1852; D.C.L. at Oxford July 1852; author of _History of Europe during the French revolution_, _10 vols._ 1833–42, _7 ed._ _20 vols._ 1847–48; in 1853 the book was stereotyped; _The military life of John Duke of Marlborough_ 1848, _2 ed._ _2 vols._ 1852. _d._ Possil house at 11.30 p._m._ 23 May 1867. _bur._ Dean cemetery, Edinburgh 30 May. _Some account of my life and writings by Sir A. Alison, edited by Lady Alison_, _2 vols._ 1883, _2 portraits_. NOTE.—He is drawn by Disraeli in Coningsby as Mr. Wordy. ALISON, CHARLES. Envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Tehran, Persia 7 April 1860; C.B. 28 Nov. 1860. _d._ Tehran 29 April 1872. ALISON, SOMERVILLE SCOTT. _b._ Edin. 1812; M.D. Edin. 1833; M.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; practised at Tranent 1833–40, in London 1840 to death; author of _Inquiry into propagation of contagious poisons_ 1839; _Medication of the larynx and trachea_ 1853; _Morbid throat and pulmonary consumption_ 1869. _d._ 85 Park st. Grosvenor sq. 11 June 1877.