Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon
The Lord Alexander of Weedon | |
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Personal details | |
Born | Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire[1] | 5 September 1936
Died | 6 November 2005 Lambeth, London[2] | (aged 69)
Occupation | Barrister, Chancellor of the University of Exeter |
Robert Scott Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon,
Education
He was educated at Brighton College (of which he was later President) and King's College, Cambridge.
Career at law
He was
He retired from the Bar in 1989, and served as Chairman of
Peerage
When offered a peerage, Alexander requested that he be "of Weedon," a very small village in Buckinghamshire, just north of Aylesbury, where he had lived for some years with his third wife, Marie, at Weedon Lodge. He and his family were hosts to the annual Weedon Jazz evening for several years, used to raise money for the village. Alexander was created a life peer as Baron Alexander of Weedon, of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire, on 11 July 1988.[5] He sat on the Conservative Party benches.
Family
He was married three times and died from a stroke in 2005, aged 69.
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References
- ^ GRO Register of Births: DEC 1936 6b 47 NEWCASTLE L. – Robert S. Alexander, mmn = Trevitt
- ^ GRO Register of Deaths: NOV 2005 C74 297 LAMBETH – Robert Scott Alexander, DoB: 5 Sep 1936, aged 69
- ^ The Last English Birth Control Trial, by John Peel, Galton Institute newsletter, Sep 1997 Archived 14 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "No. 51411". The London Gazette. 15 July 1988. p. 8095.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2000.