Alexander Sinclair (or Scott)

Born in Aberdeen (parish of St. Machar), c. 1627 (15th September 1632 ?), the son of Walter Sinclair and Mariota (or Mariora) Douglas; converted to Catholicism; to Scots College, Douai, 17th January (or 19th February) 1645 (Poetry); to Scots College, Madrid, 10th November 1647 (having completed Rhetoric); left, 1649 or 30th May 1650 (being perhaps at Alcalá, 1649-50); at Scots College, Rome, November 1650 to 1654; returned to Spain for reasons of health, 1654; joined Society of Jesus, entered novitiate at Plasencia, 1656 (or 10th April 1655), transferred to Alcalá, February 1657; “sang Mass” in Scots College, Madrid, Easter 1659; professor of Rhetoric, Colegio Imperial, Madrid, for eight years; professor of Philosophy and Belles Lettres, Scots College, Madrid, c. 1677-79 (for five years ?); author of Principum feminarum exemplar, id est, vita Sanctae Margaritae, Scotorum Reginae (Madrid, 1679) and of verse-play on life of Sr. Hermenegild, martyr, performed by his pupils in Rhetoric, 18th October 1668; died in Madrid, 20th/22nd April 1679. (Cf. Sommervogel, op. cit., VII, coI. 966).