3-065-960 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander, M.P. for South Ayrshire, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Hills and Saunders. 'Lieutenant-Colonel Claud Alexander, of Ballochmyle, Ayrshire, returned in the Conservative interest for the southern division of that county, is eldest son of the late Mr. Boyd Alexander, of Ballochmyle; his mother was Sophia Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, and half-sister of John, late Lord Broughton, G.C.B., better known by his former name of Sir John Cam Hobhouse. He was born in the year 1831, and was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He is a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for the counties of Ayr and Renfrew, and a Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Grenadier Guards, with which regiment he served through the Crimean War. Colonel Alexander, who now enters Parliament for the first time, was an unsuccessful candidate for the same constituency at the general election of November, 1888. He married, in 1863, Eliza, only daughter of the late Mr. Alexander Speirs, of Elderslie, some time Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.