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.