William Maxwell Alexander

Son of Claud Alexander of Southbar, who became paymaster-general in East India Company, returned to Britain and bought Ballochmyle House and Estate. Brother (and partner in London merchant firm of Hon Wm Fraser, Alexander, Neilson & Co. (q.v.)) of Boyd Alexander (q.v.), and brother of Claud Alexander (1789-1845).

1. Retired from the firm 30/04/1836.

There is no reference to the mercantile involvement of the two brothers in the limited materials on the family found to date.  Their names are distinctive, however, and this, coupled with the Alexander family's linkage to Claud Neilson and the fact that London court directories show the brothers with London addresses in the period of their partnership, appears to provide clear confirmation.

T71/877 Antigua claim no. 1045 (Yapton Farm?).

Ashworth P. Burke (ed.), A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (London, Harrison and Sons, 1903), p. 31; Rev. Charles Rogers, Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and the house of Alexander (Edinburgh, William Patterson, 1877) Vol. II pp. 28-31 http://www.archive.org/stream/memorialsofearlo02rogeuoft/memorialsofearlo02rogeuoft_djvu.txt [accessed 30/03/2011].

1. London Gazette, Issue 19379, 03/05/1836, p. 792.