Robert Alexander (barrister)

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

For other people named Robert Alexander, see Robert Alexander (disambiguation).

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
  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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