chess problems. d. 6 Cork st. London 9 Sep. 1871.
ALEXANDER, Henry. M.R.C.S. 1805, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R. Med. and Chir. soc. 1813; surgeon to the Eye infirmary Cork st. London; surgeon oculist to Queen Victoria 1838 to death; F.R.S. 22 April 1847. d. 6 Cork st. London 17 Jany. 1859 aged 76.
ALEXANDER, Henry. b. 9 April 1787; a director of the H.E.I.Co. 8 March 1826; M.P. for Barnstaple (tory) 10 June 1826 to 24 July 1830. d. Belmont, Herts 14 Jany. 1861.
ALEXANDER, Rev. John (son of Rev. Wm. Alexander). b. Lancaster 19 Dec. 1792; entered Hoxton academy 13 Aug. 1814; a chapel was built for him at Norwich which was opened 1 Dec. 1819; ordained 31 May 1820; pastor of this chapel to April 1866; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1853; author of sermons entitled The preacher from the press, 2 vols. 1838. d. Norwich 31 July 1868. bur. the Rosary cemetery, Norwich 4 Aug. The Congregational year book 1869, pp. 234–36.
Note.—He was to Norwich what John Angell James was to Birmingham and Thomas Raffles to Liverpool.
ALEXANDER, John Henry. b. Dunbar, July 1796; actor at Queen’s theatre, Glasgow 1810; member of Murray’s company in Edinburgh 1816; managed the Caledonian theatre, Edinburgh; Lessee of Dumfries and Carlisle theatres; stage manager at Newcastle; manager of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow and of theatres at Carlisle and Dumfries, and Adelphi theatre, Edin. 1822–29; proprietor of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow, the most elegant in Scotland (which he built) 1829–1851; the best actor of Scottish characters, except Charles Mackay. d. Glasgow 15 Dec. 1851.
Note.—On 17 Feb. 1849, 65 persons were killed in attempting to escape from the gallery of his theatre, an alarm having spread that it was on fire.
ALEXANDER, John Hobhouse Inglis. b. 1832; captain R.N. 16 Aug. 1863; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 21 April 1875 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1864. d. Mentone 22 Nov. 1875.
ALEXANDER, Nathaniel. b. Hillsborough, co. Down, Aug. 1815; M.P. for co. Antrim (conserv.) 14 April 1841 to 1 July 1852. d. Ardimersey cottage, Islay 5 Jany. 1853.
ALEXANDER, Robert. b. Paisley; ed. at Paisley gr. sch.; conducted Clydesdale journal at Hamilton and at Glasgow; conducted the Western luminary at Exeter, about 2 years; edited the Watchman in London; managed the Morning journal to 1830, when he was prosecuted for libel, and condemned to one year’s imprisonment in Newgate, and fined £300, 10 Feb. 1830; edited the Liverpool Standard; founded the Liverpool Mail 1836, edited it 1836 to death. d. Great Crosby near Liverpool 9 Feb. 1854 in his 59 year. G.M. xli, 429–30 (1854).
ALEXANDER, Sir Robert, 2 Baronet. b. 16 Dec. 1769; succeeded 1809. d. 35 St. James’s place, London 1 Dec. 1859.
ALEXANDER, Robert. In the navy 1810–19; ensign Madras army 12 June 1819; adjutant general 24 Sep. 1839 to 15 Aug. 1849; col. 24 N.I. 16 Aug. 1851 to 1869; general 25 June 1870, retired 31 Dec. 1877. d. 6 Marloes road South Kensington 16 May 1879 in his 81 year.
ALEXANDER, Robert. b. 2 July 1813; in the Bengal civil service 1832–61; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Schuls, Lower Engadine 16 Aug. 1882.
ALEXANDER, Thomas. b. Preston-pans near Edinburgh; entered army medical service 10 Oct. 1834; served in the west Indies, Nova Scotia, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Turkey, the Crimea and Canada; had charge of the light division throughout the Crimean war; inspector general (local rank) 21 July 1856; director general of army medical department 22 June 1858 to death; hon. surgeon to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. (m. Mary Alice eld. sister of T. Heath Haviland, lieutenant governor of Prince Edward island, she d. 12 April 1881). d. 26 Norfolk square Hyde Park, London 1 Feb. 1860.
Note.—A statue of him by Wm. Brodie was unveiled at Preston-pans by Lord Elcho Sep. 1862.
ALEXANDER, William. Lieut. col. 2 Bengal light cavalry 21 Aug. 1849 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Dorundah, Bengal 2 Oct. 1851.
ALEXANDER, Rev. William. b. Chapel Rosan, parish of Stoneykirk, Wigtonshire 21 Feb. 1763; a carpenter in Lancaster 1783–1802; pastor of Independent ch. at Prescot near Liverpool 1802–10; ordained 23 Oct. 1805; pastor at Leigh 20 Jany. 1811; pastor at Church Town 1 May 1825 to death. d. Southport 23 Jany. 1855. Memoir of Rev. W. Alexander, by Rev. John Alexander 1856; Evangelical mag. March 1823, portrait.
ALEXANDER, William. b. 1794; a writer to the signet in Edin. 1819; principal clerk and registrar of Commissary Court of Edin. 21 Dec. 1849 to death; author of Abridgment of acts of Sederunt 1838; An abridgment of acts of parliament of Scotland 1841; Plan and description of the original electro-magnetic telegraph by the inventor 1851. d. 21 Dec. 1859.
ALEXANDER, William. In Nelson’s fleet 1805; surveyor of shipping to the underwriters and Mersey dock and harbour board, Liverpool nearly 50 years. d. 4 Mount Vernon Green, Liverpool 11 Feb. 1884, in 97 year.
ALEXANDER, Sir William John, 3 Baronet b. 1 April 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub. and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. Dub. 1817, incorp. B.A. Cam. 1825, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 8 Feb. 1825; went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 10 July 1844; Bencher of his inn 1844; attorney general to Prince of Wales 24 June 1853; succeeded as 3 baronet 1 Dec. 1859; one of council of Prince of Wales 27 Jany. 1864. d. 22 St. James’s place, London 31 March 1873. I.L.N. xlii, 400 (1863) portrait.
ALEXANDER, Rev. William Lindsay. b. Edinburgh 24 Aug. 1808; ed. at univs. of Edin. and St. Andrew’s; classical tutor in Lancashire college 1828; minister of Newington chapel, Liverpool 2 years; pastor of Augustine church, Edin.; principal of theological hall of Scottish congregational churches; member of Old Testament revision company 1870; author of the 3 articles Moral philosophy, Scripture, and Theology in 8 ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica; F.R.S. Edin. d. Pinkieburn near Edin. 20 Dec. 1884. Our Scottish clergy, 2 series 1849, pp. 199–204.
ALFORD, Rev. Henry (3 son of Rev. Samuel Alford, Dean of St. Burian, Cornwall, who d. 15 Aug. 1799). b. Curry Rivell Vicarage 3 Dec. 1782; ed. at Crewkerne, Bridgwater and Tiverton schools; entered Wad. Coll. Ox. 1800; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1811; Fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811; ordained at Quebec chapel, Lon. to curacy of Steeple Ashton, Wilts 13 June 1813; R. of Ampton, Suffolk 1826–42; R. of Winkfield 1833–35; R. of Aston Sandford, Bucks July 1836 to 1850. (m. (1) 20 Dec. 1809 Sarah Eliza 3 dau. of Thomas Bradley Paget of Tamworth, Staffs. banker. m. (2) 11 Aug. 1831 Susanna eld. dau. of Thomas Barber of Stukeley, Hunts). d. Tunbridge 22 Sep. 1852. Memorial of Rev. Henry Alford by Henry Alford, B.D. 1855.
ALFORD, Very Rev. Henry (only child of the preceding by his first wife). b. 25 Alfred place Bedford sq. London 7 Oct. 1810; ed. at Charmouth in Dorset and Ilminster gr. school; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. 13 Nov. 1828; scholar 1830, Bell scholar March 1831; 34 wrangler and 8 classic 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1859; ordained at Exeter Cathedral to curacy of Ampton, Suffolk 27 Oct. 1833; fellow of his college 1 Oct. 1834; ordained priest at St. Margaret’s, Westminster 6 Nov. 1834; V. of Wymeswold Leics. 11 March 1835; Hulsean lecturer in Univ. of Cam. 1841–42; examiner in logic and moral philosophy in Univ. of London 1841–57; minister of Quebec chapel Portman sq. 1853; lived at 6 Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood 26 Sep. 1853 to 19 June 1857; dean of Canterbury 18 March 1857 to death; one of the revisers of the New Testament; edited Contemporary Review Dec. 1866; author of Poems and poetical fragments 1831; Chapters on the poets of Greece 1841; Greek Testament 5 vols. 1849–61, and 40 more volumes besides 104 articles in reviews. (m. 10 March 1835 Frances Oke dau. of Rev. Samuel Alford, P.C. of Muchelney, Somerset, she d. 18 Nov. 1878 aged 67). d. The Deanery, Canterbury 12 Jany. 1871. bur. churchyard of St. Martin’s, Canterbury 17 Jany. Life of Henry Alford edited by his widow 1873, portrait; Illustrated Review i, 295–98, portrait; I.L.N. xxvi, 269 (1855), lviii, 67 (1871), portrait.
Note.—The statue erected to his memory in a niche of the west front of Canterbury Cathedral was unveiled 17 Oct. 1871.
ALFORD, Stephen Shute. M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1858, L.S.A. 1844; hon. sec. to Society for promoting legislation