Alexander Keiller (businessman), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Keiller (businessman)

British businessperson

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1804

Place of Birth: Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 27-Mar-1874

Profession: businessperson, mechanical engineer, industrialist, patron of the arts

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Alexander Keiller (1 July 1804, Dundee - 27 March 1874 Gothenburg) was a Scottish businessman active in Gothenburg, Sweden. Keiller arrived in Gothenburg in 1825, on account of the Keiller family's timber business in Sweden.
Three years later he started a mill for machine spinning of flax and hemp, along with his compatriot William Gibson.
This enterprise was shut down in 1839. In 1841 Keiller opened a heavy engineering plant in Gothenburg, as a private company.
In 1867 Keiller floated Göteborgs Mekaniska Verkstad on the stock exchange, and a year later he retired completely from the workshops.
He died in Gothenburg on 27 March 1874 . He was the father of James Keiller who in 1906 donated the area around Ramberget to Gothenburg city which here had built Keillers park.