Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Alexander, Robert, 1792-1879
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1792-1879
History
ALEXANDER, ROBERT; b. 13 Oct 1792; adm. 4 Oct 1808; left Bartholomewtide 1809; served Royal Navy 1810-8; Cadet, EICS Madras 26 Mar 1819; Ensign, 24th Madras Native Infantry 12 Jun 1819; Lieut. 13 Jun 1819; Capt. 11 Oct 1826; Maj. 5 Mar 1836; Lieut. -Col. 23 Jan 1841; Lieut. -Col., 2nd Madras Native Infantry 3 Sep 1847; Brevet Col. 17 Mar 1851; Col. 16 Aug 1851; Maj. -Gen. 28 Nov 1854; Lieut. -Gen. 22 Aug 1865; Gen. 25 Jun 1870; m. 27 Apr 1831 Charlotte, dau. of Maj. Josiah Stewart, EICS Madras, Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad; d. 16 May 1879. [Perhaps Robert Alexander, bapt. Uphall, West Lothian 14 Oct 1792, son of William Alexander, and Mary --- (IGI)]
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
GB 2014
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.