Historical information

Rev Alex MacDonald was the minister at St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Surrey Hills. He laid the foundation stone of the new church on 2 July 1910. He gave the sermon when the church was officially dedicated in December the same year.
REF:
1.TROVE - The Reporter (Box Hill, Vic. : 1889 - 1925) Fri 16 Dec 1910, Page 4 - New Church at Surrey.
2. Index of Ministers who served in the Presbyterian Church of Victoria: b. 1853 Scotland; Edinburgh Free Church; 1880 ordained Wangaratta, Vic.; 1890 demitted, returned to Scotland; 1892 Surrey Hills; Deepdene, helped organise Church; 1936 died.
https://illuminate.recollect.net.au/nodes/view/16616
3. Transcript Boroondara Cemetery - buried with his sister; graves 1958 & 1959; died 24 July 1936
4. Electoral rolls: 1914 & 1919 - living at 16 Canterbury Road, Camberwell with Jane Smith Mackie and Mary McMillan

Physical description

Black and white head and shoulders portrait of a bearded gentleman in clerical clothing.