John Alexander (chief clerk)
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John Alexander | |
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_with_wife_Mary_Elizabeth_(nee_Thwaites)_ca_1875.jpg) John Alexander formally dressed in a garden with wife Mary Elizabeth (née Thwaites), about 1875. | |
| Born | 28 December 1830 |
| Died | 3 October 1916 (aged 85) |
| Resting place | Wooler, Northumberland 55:32.7586N 2:0.7496W |
| Education | Royal High School, Calton Hill, Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Chief Clerk to Bow Street Police Court |
| Employer | UK Home Office |
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| Children | James Finlay, Lucy Winifred, Gladys Mary, Elsie Margaret |
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John Alexander (Wooler, 28 December 1830 – 3 October 1916, Sevenoaks) was Chief Clerk to Bow Street Magistrates' Court,[1] then called Bow Street Police Court (as seen in Alexander's summons to James McNeill Whistler),[2] and simultaneously, as was then the custom, Editor of the Police Gazette in England[3] from 1877 until his retirement in 1895.
John Alexander was born in Wooler, Northumberland, son of country physician and surgeon James Alexander (1797–1863).[4] He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh. Both his sisters married famous doctors: Christina Margaret (1833–1907) married Sir John Struthers, best known for his drawings of the beached Tay whale;[5] Margaret Agnes (1841–1911) married John Ivor Murray, who built a hospital in Shanghai and became Colonial Surgeon in Hong Kong.[6]
His wife, Mary Elizabeth Thwaites (1846–1923) was the eldest daughter of the engineer and founder of the Vulcan Iron Works at Bradford, Robinson Thwaites.