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==Early life and education== Todd was born at [[Cathcart]] in outer [[Glasgow]], the elder son of Alexander Todd, JP,<ref>[https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/research-guides/research-guides-a-z/justices-of-the-peace-records www.nrscotland.gov.uk]</ref> a clerk with the [[Glasgow Subway]], and his wife, Jane Lowry.<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 770414|title = Alexander Robertus Todd, O. M., Baron Todd of Trumpington. 2 October 1907β10 January 1997|journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume = 46|pages = 517β532|last1 = Brown|first1 = Daniel M.|last2 = Kornberg|first2 = Hans|year = 2000| issue=β1|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1999.0130}}</ref> He attended [[Allan Glen's School]] and graduated from the [[University of Glasgow]] with a bachelor's degree (BSc) in 1928. He received a doctorate (Dr Phil.nat.) from [[Goethe University Frankfurt]] in 1931 for his thesis on the chemistry of the [[bile acid]]s. Todd was awarded an [[1851 Research Fellowship]] from the [[Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851]],<ref>1851 Royal Commission Archives</ref> and, after studying at [[Oriel College, Oxford]], he received another doctorate (DPhil) in 1933.
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