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Alexander Leighton (1800–1874) was a Scottish writer, known as the editor of Tales of the Borders.
Life
Born at Dundee, he studied at the Dundee Academy, and then took up medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He worked as a lawyer's clerk in Edinburgh, and then as a man of letters. He also worked as a book editor, and probably as a ghostwriter.
Leighton died on 24 December 1874.
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