Sir Alexander Richardson (27 March 1864 – 30 March 1928) was Conservative MP for

Gravesend Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the Bank (geography), south bank of the River Thames and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Located in the diocese of Ro ...

.'RICHARDSON, Sir Alexander', ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201
accessed 22 May 2017
/ref> Before becoming an MP, he was a journalist and editor who specialised in engineering subjects. He was a long-time editor of ''

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

'' magazine. He also wrote numerous historical works about engineering and engineering firm histories. He was first elected at a by-election in 1918 during the war, was re-elected in the general elections of 1918 and 1922, but lost the seat to Labour in 1923. He was knighted in 1922.

Sources

Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 1864 births 1928 deaths People from Dumbarton British editors British non-fiction writers British engineers {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub