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Partner in Messrs. Alexander & Co, Ipswich bankers, unsuccessfully counterclaimed as assignee of an annuity of £200 on New Montpelier Estate in St James, Jamaica with his brother Dykes Alexander junior and his nephew Henry Alexander (both q.v.).

1. Born 16/06/1773 in Needham Market, Suffolk, the son of Dykes Alexander senior and his wife Martha née Biddle, who were both part of a network of East Anglian Quaker banking families. Married Rebecca Biddle in 1805. Bought Goldrood House in Suffolk in 1809. They had 12 children. Died 03/05/1838 in Ipswich.

T71/873 St James claim no. 1 (New Montpelier).

1. [accessed 03/07/2012]. Margaret Dawes, Women Who Made Money: Women Partners in British Private Banks, 1752-1906 (Bloomington, Indiana, Trafford, 2010) pp. 85-87.