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Christiston, Alexander (c 1753 — 1820)
A master at Edinburgh High School who later became Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University. Sir Robert Christison, physician and professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Materia Medica, was his son. It was at the Christisons' house in Edinburgh that Burns, according to Cromek, said to a minister who was criticising Gray's Elegy in general and inaccurate terms: 'Sir I now perceive a man may be an excellent judge of poetry by square and rule, and after all, be a d- blockhead!'. The minister is said to have been the Rev William Robb of Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire, who died in 1797.
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