Robert Alexander (barrister)

Robert Alexander QC FRS FSA (18 January 1795 – 21 February 1843) was a British barrister.

He was the son of the Halifax, West Yorkshire solicitor Lewis Alexander and he studied law at Lincoln's Inn before he became a barrister. He was a founder of Halifax's Literary and Philosophical Society, and was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1835.^[1]

He in 1829 married Matilda Legard, who was the daughter of Sir Thomas Legard of the Royal Navy.^[2]

Robert Alexander died in London in 1843 and was buried in the churchyard of St. Nicholas Church, Ganton, Yorkshire.

References

^ "Fellows Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
^ Burke, John Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. p. 600.

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[1] "Fellows Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 11 July 2019.

[2] Burke, John Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. p. 600.

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