Reginald Alexander
physician (1847-1916)
Reginald Gervase Alexander FLS (20 February 1847 – 14 February 1916) was a British medical doctor and authority on tuberculosis. After his death, he was recognized as the 15th Baron Cobham.
Origins
Reginald Gervase Alexander was the son of Dr. William Alexander of Blackwall Lodge, Halifax, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire (3 September 1806 – 13 April 1888), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and his wife (married 4 October 1837) Emily Kirby (died 26 April 1862), daughter of Samuel Kirby of Grove House, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. He had an older brother, Arthur William Alexander (2 August 1843 – 15 February 1895), who died unmarried and without issue. His uncle Gervase Alexander (30 September 1802 – 23 September 1871) married his aunt Eliza Kirby on 16 October 1838, while his aunt Ellen Alexander (10 December 1803 – 27 September 1854) married John Clarke Prescott (died 16 May 1863) on 20 February 1839.
Life
In February 1857, he was admitted to Heath Grammar School, Halifax. In 1867, he was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated from the University of Cambridge, with a Master of Arts degree and from the University of Edinburgh, as a Doctor of Medicine, and became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
The Committee for Privileges and Conduct of the House of Lords declared on 22 July 1912 that he was one of the co-heirs of the titles of Baron Burgh and Baron Cobham (of (Cobham, in) Kent) (except for the attainder), and on 11 May 1914 that he was one of the co-heirs of the title of Baron Strabolgi.
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