Alexander Morton (manufacturer)

Alexander Morton was a Scottish textiles manufacturer.
In 1875, he founded Alexander Morton and Company in Darvel, Ayrshire. In the 1890s, they had nearly 600 employees. By 1900, they had expanded to Carlisle, England and Killybegs, Ireland. The Donegal carpet industry owes its origins to Alexander Morton.
They used the services of many designers, especially C. F. A. Voysey, Heywood Sumner and Lindsay Butterfield, and later Cecil Millar and George Henry Walton.
In 1914, he reorganised his business interests, with a new company Morton Sundour being "the major off-shoot". It was run by his second son James Morton.
A monument to Alexander Morton in Loudoun, Ayrshire, erected in 1927, is a Category A listed building.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London holds 774 examples of their fabrics in their collection.