James Du Pre Alexander, 3rd Earl of Caledon (27 July 1812 – 30 June 1855), styled Viscount Alexander from birth until 1839, was a soldier and politician.

Early life

Born into an Ulster-Scots aristocratic family in London, he was the son of the 2nd Earl of Caledon and Lady Catherine Yorke. He was educated from 1824 to 1828 at

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and then at

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Career

He was appointed High Sheriff of Armagh in 1836, and was Member of Parliament for Tyrone between 1837 and 1839. He succeeded to the title of Earl of Caledon on the death of his father on 8 April 1839. He was then elected to the

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as a Representative Peer for Ireland in 1841. He gained the rank of captain in the

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and was

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of the Royal Tyrone Militia from 1 May 1839 (in succession to his father) until his death.Arthur Sleigh, ''The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army List'', April 1850, London: British Army Despatch Press, 1850/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 1991, ISBN 978-1-84342-410-9, p. 117.

Personal life

On 4 September 1845 at St. Michael's,

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, Hertfordshire, he married Lady Jane Frederica Harriot Mary Grimston, daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam, and Lady Charlotte Jenkinson. They had three sons and one daughter: * James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon (1846–1898), who married Lady Elizabeth Graham-Toler, a daughter of Hector Graham-Toler, 3rd Earl of Norbury. * Hon. Walter Philip Alexander (1849–1934), a Lt.-Col. in the 2nd Dragoons who served in the

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from 1899 to 1900; he married Margaret Katherine Grimston, daughter of Rev. the Hon. Francis Grimston (a son of the 1st Earl of Verulam). * Lady Jane Charlotte Elizabeth Alexander (1850–1941), who married Capt. Edmund Barker Van Koughnet, a son of the Hon. Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnet, former Chancellor of

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. * Hon. Charles Alexander (1854–1909), a Major in the 3rd Battalion,

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; he married Kate Stayner, daughter of Charles Stayner, of Halifax, in 1880. Lord Caledon died at the age of 42 at his house in

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, London, on 30 June 1855 and was buried at Caledon in

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, Ireland. Lady Caledon died on 30 March 1888.

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