Career
See Alexander Macdonell (bishop) for another Canadian bishop with the same name. Born on 1 November 1833 in Lochiel, Scotland, he was ordained as a priest on 20 December 1862, aged 29. On 18 July 1890, aged 56, he was appointed Bishop of Alexandria-Cornwall.
Three months later, on 28 October 1890, he was ordained accordingly.
He died, aged 71, on 30 May 1905. He had been a priest for 42 years and a bishop for 14 years.