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

Halifax, West Yorkshire Halifax () is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It is the commercial, cultural and administrative centre of the borough, and the headquarters of Calderdale Council. In the 15th cen ...

solicitor Lewis Alexander and he studied law at

Lincoln's Inn The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...

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 The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

in 1835. He in 1829 married Matilda Legard, who was the daughter of Sir Thomas Legard of the Royal Navy. Robert Alexander died in London in 1843 and was buried in the churchyard of St. Nicholas Church,

Ganton Ganton is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the south side of the Vale of Pickering immediately north of the Yorkshire Wolds. Ganton lies west of the coastal town of Filey, and ...

, Yorkshire.

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1795 births 1843 deaths People from Halifax, West Yorkshire Members of Lincoln's Inn Fellows of the Royal Society {{UK-activist-stub