Nathaniel Alexander (15 August 1815 – 5 January 1853) was an Irish politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, County Antrim, Antrim, ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the c ...

at a by-election on 14 April 1841, replacing John Bruce Richard O'Neill who had succeeded as

Viscount O'Neill Viscount O'Neill, of Shane's Castle in the County of Antrim, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1795 for John O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill, who had earlier represented Randalstown and County Antrim in the Irish House of Comm ...

. He was re-elected at the general elections of

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and

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but left the House of Commons at the election in 1852. He was the son of the Ven. Robert Alexander, Archdeacon of Down, by his wife Catherine Staples. His grandfathers were Nathaniel Alexander,

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, and John Staples, MP for Antrim. On 7 April 1842 he married Florinda, daughter of Richard Boyle Bagley and granddaughter of Richard Handcock, 2nd Baron Castlemaine; their sons succeeded to the family property at Portglenone (now a Trappist monastery). He died in

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, Scotland at the home of Belfast shipping owner, Robert Langtry.

References

* * http://thepeerage.com/p25898.htm#i258974

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* 1815 births 1853 deaths Irish Conservative Party MPs

Nathaniel Nathaniel is an English variant of the biblical Hebrew name A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. ...

Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Antrim constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 {{Conservative-UK-MP-1810s-stub