Alexander Fraser Dawson, a chemist, lived at No. 7. for almost fifty years, between 1904 and 1950. He was born on 11 June 1866, at New Deer, Aberdeenshire, son of Thomas Dawson, a railway inspector, and Mary Ogilvie Maxwell. He qualified as a chemist in 1889, and had a chemist’s shop at 14 Deanhaugh Street. He died at No. 7 on 16 April 1950.
in 1895, Alexander F. Dawson married Anne Eleanor Nesbitt, at Coldstream. She was born at Berwick-upon-Tweed c.1867 and died at No. 7 on 9 January 1947.
In 1916, The Scotsman (2 December) reports that Alex. F. Dawson was taken to court by the firm of R. & G. Hay, beer bottlers, to prevent him from ‘putting disinfecting fluid or other liquid’ into bottles which they sent to their customers. The case was dismissed.