Alexander Muirhead Aitken
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13 St George's Terrace South Kensington [1864] 2 Pump Court, Temple [1868] Calcutta [1869] Singapore [1875] | ||||||||
| Occupation | legal | ||||||||
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Donaldson & Burkinshaw is Singapore’s second-oldest law partnership.[1] Established on 6 November 1874. The Firm’s founders, Messrs Alexander Muirhead Aitken, Alexander Leathes Donaldson and John Burkinshaw, were British expatriates who had come to Singapore in the 19th century when the island was a British Crown Colony.
"Mr. Alexander Muirhead Aitken was admitted as a special law agent in Singapore in 1852, and was called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple in 1864. He took a leading part in public affairs for many years, and his name is to be found on many of the committees appointed at public meetings to carry on local agitations. As has been said, he acted as Registrar of the Court for a short while in 1856; and in 1870 he acted for a month or two as Attorney-General.
