A carpenter by trade who is known to have lived in Leeds before moving south. He never married. (Information from Peter Hodge).
A collection of some twenty homemade store boxes of beetles formed by him is in the Booth Museum, Brighton, presented by his sister. Locality labels are present but no species names. Some interesting specimens are included such as Dorcatoma dresdensis Herbst. which he took in his home at 24 Montpelier Place, Brighton.
Adam Parker has pointed out to me that Alexander is mentioned in Simms (1968), and that there are 800 Yorkshire Coleoptera in the Yorkshire Museum acquired in 1943. (MD 7/01,12/21, 9/22)
Dates
d. 1980?