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 | | Alexander Bathgate was born on 4 August 1845 in Peebles, Peeblesshire, Scotland, the son of Anne Cairns Anderson and her husband, John Bathgate. |
 | | Bathgate was a director of several companies, including Kempthorne, Prosser and Company's New Zealand Drug Company, the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company (both of which he served as chairman), Donaghy's Rope and Twine Company, and the Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Company. |
 | | Bathgate was equally keen to see Otago prosper economically and was involved in various bodies, such as the Otago Expansion League, concerned with social reform and economic expansion. |
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