BEGG, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL (1839-1907) was the son of a minister and was born at Liberton, near Edinburgh. After being educated at the High School in Edinburgh, he entered an insurance office. In 1859 he came to Otago in the Alpine and was for three years in the office of Young and McGlashan. He spent four years farming at Clutha and returned in 1866 to Dunedin, where he became manager for Douglas, Alderson and Co., pastoral agents. In 1870 he established himself as a stock and station agent. Begg was a member of the road board and the Roslyn borough council, and was for eight years mayor of Roslyn, and again in 1905-06. He was nine years a member of the Otago education board and served also on the hospital and charitable aid board, the benevolent trust (1894), and the Otago harbour board. He was on the Otago prohibition council and one of the leaders of the prohibition movement in the province, being a member at different times of the licensing committees in Roslyn and Dunedin city, and of the board of property of the Presbyterian church. Begg contested the City of Dunedin seat in 1896, and that for Taieri in 1899. He married (1867) a daughter of Peter Clarke (Clinton). His death occurred on 12 Oct 1907.

Otago Daily Times, 14 Oct 1907.

Reference: Volume 1, page 43

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