Background
McDonald was born in Bishopbriggs in 1937, the son of Jessie Helen Low and Alexander M. McDonald.
McDonald was born in Bishopbriggs in 1937, the son of Jessie Helen Low and Alexander M. McDonald.
He studied at the University of Glasgow before training for the ministry at Trinity College.
He worked in the timber industry in the 1950s, prior to National Service in the Royal Air Force. His formal title (following the end of his Moderatorial year) is The Very Reverend Doctor Alexander McDonald. In the early 1980s, he co-presented the Scottish Television religious magazine programme That"s the Spirit! and was also interviewed on Very Important Person, also an STV religious show.
They also appeared together on an episode of celebrity Ready Steady Cook.