Alexander Silver

{{short description|Scottish trader (Died 1797)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Alexander Silver | death_date = 1797 | death_place = Netherley House | children = George Silver }}

'''Alexander Silver''' was a wealthy East India Company trader, who lived in Netherley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in the late 18th century; he and his son George Silver were noted agricultural innovators of their era.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nA4AAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA321 George Robertson, ''A general view of Kincardineshire or the Mearns'' (1810)]</ref> Alexander

Silver built the Netherley House mansion in Netherley and died there in 1797.<ref>Douglas Gordon Barron, ''The Court Book of the Barony of Urie in Kincardineshire: 1604–1747'', published 1892</ref> Alexander's son George acquired the estate of nearby Muchalls Castle by the year 1841.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Notable natural features in the vicinity include Red Moss and Meikle Carewe Hill. Notable historic features in this area include Raedykes Roman Camp and Maryculter House.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

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