About Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
British Army general (1826–1907)... | General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet, was a Scottish soldier who achieved high office in the British Army in the 1880s. He was a descendant of the Alison family presented by Francis Galton in Hereditary Genius (1869) as an example of genius inherited over several generations.
