Henry Alexander (Irish politician)

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Alexander's gravestone, Groote Kerk, Cape Town

Henry Alexander (1763 – 6 May 1818)[1] was an Irish politician from County Londonderry.

Alexander was educated at Trinity College, Dublin,[2] and sat in the Parliament of Ireland until its abolition under the Act of Union 1800 and then in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was returned as a Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of Old Sarum in the 1802 election.

He was the brother of James Alexander, who was also a Member of Parliament for Old Sarum, and who bought the patronage of the borough in 1820 from their cousin, the 2nd Earl of Caledon.[3] He was also the brother of Josias Alexander.

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