Samuel Alexander (16 June 1773

Needham Market Needham Market is a small town in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, set in the Gipping Valley. Nearby villages include Barking, Suffolk, Barking, Darmsden, Badley and Creeting St Mary. The town is located just east of the A14 road ( ...

- 3 May 1838,

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...

) was a prominent banker based in

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. He was the son of Samuel Alexander (1749-1824) and Elizabeth Gurney (1747-1786), of the Gurney quaker banking family of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...

. Samuel was active in local politics in Ipswich. He was an

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with

Ipswich Corporation Ipswich Corporation was the local authority which ran the town of Ipswich in Suffolk, England. It was founded in 1200 and abolished in 1974, being replaced by Ipswich Borough Council. The corporation's formal name until 1835 was the "bailiffs, bu ...

. His funeral was attended by his relative,

Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the tr ...

(née Gurney), and involved a procession as described in the ''

Suffolk Chronicle The ''Suffolk Chronicle'', was a weekly newspaper published in Ipswich by J. King from 5 May 1810 until 28 December, 1872. The ''Chronicle'' was a radical newspaper with the motto "Open to all parties, influenced by none". It was a rival to the T ...

'': : “... hearse was preceded by about 80 gentlemen of Ipswich, headed by the Mayor and Magistrates, who walked two and two from the churchyard of St.Mary Stoke, through St. Peter's, St. Nicholas’ and St. Matthew’s Street until they arrived at the extremity of the town, when they filed off on each side of the road so as form an avenue ..."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Samuel 1773 births 1838 deaths English Quakers English bankers