ALEX, EPHRAIM. _b._ Cheltenham Dec. 1800; a dentist at 35 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; founded Jewish board of guardians for the relief of Jewish poor 1859; the first pres. of it 1859–69, this board was really the pioneer of charitable organisation societies in England; warden of the great synagogue. _d._ 5 Chichester st. Harrow road, London 13 Nov. 1882. _bur._ Willesden cemetery 16 Nov. ALEXANDER, ALEXANDER (_only son of Wm. Humphrys of Birmingham, merchant, who d. 1 May 1807, by Hannah youngest child of Rev. John Alexander of Dublin, presbyterian clergyman, she d. 12 Sep. 1814_). _b._ 21 June 1783; went abroad with his father 1802; detained prisoner in France till 1814; kept a school called Netherton house academy near Worcester 1815; assumed name of Alexander by royal license 8 March 1824; took title of Earl of Stirling and Dovan 7 Feb. 1826; tried at Edinburgh 29 April to 4 May 1839 for forging documents to prove his title, when acquitted. (_m._ 4 Jany. 1812 Fortunata Maria Gertrude only dau. of Giovanni Bartoletti of Naples). _d._ 1859. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i_, 403–68 (1859). ALEXANDER, ANDREW. Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews 1820 to death; M.A. St. Andrews 1846. _d._ St. Andrews 5 June 1859. ALEXANDER, CHARLES CARSON. 2nd lieut. R.E. 20 July 1813; superintended exhuming body of Napoleon at St. Helena 15 Oct. 1840; lieut. col. R.E. 2 Feb. 1848 to death; commanded the R.E. in the Crimea 22 Sep. 1854 to death. _d._ of apoplexy in his tent before Sebastopol 19 Oct. 1854. ALEXANDER, CHARLES REVANS, Educ. at Eton; M.R.C.S. 1840; constructed many 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.