Dykes Alexander (14 July 1763, Needham Market – 27 February 1849, Ipswich) was a banker and Quaker minister in Ipswich, Suffolk. [1]
He was the son of Dykes Alexander (senior) and Martha Biddle. He married Hannah Brewster, the daughter of Richard Brewster and Catherine Peckover on the 5 July 1786. [2] He bought some land in St Mary Stoke, Ipswich in 1808, but sold this to his cousin Samuel Alexander in 1809. Samuel built Goldrood House there, wherein Dykes subsequently lived. [3] [1]
Dykes Alexander was the first chairman of the Ipswich Gas Company. [4]
On 2 November 1848, whilst visiting Thomas Fox in Rushmere, Ipswich, when he mistook a door to the cellar for the door to the drawing room. He fell down the stone staircase and sustained serious injuries. [5] Already by 17 November there was concern that these may prove fatal. He died on 27 February 1849.
Family
Dykes and Hannah Alexander had seven children including: [2]
- Catherine Alexander (1787-1849) married Thomas Fox
- Richard Dykes Alexander (1788-1865)
- Henry Alexander(1789-1838)
- Hannah (1793-)
- Priscilla (1805-1883), married Algernon Peckover, with whom she had eight children including Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover and Priscilla Hannah Peckover. [6]
References
- ^ a b "The Descendants of un-named Alexander" (PDF). Pennyghael. Kinloch Hotel. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Dykes Alexander junior". Legacies of British Slavery. University College London. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ "Photographic copies of paintings of Goldrood, Ipswich". Discovery. The National Archive. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ Norman, John Norman (2017). "Ipswich Icons – When gas was unmetered and instead families had a set cut off time". Ipswich Star. No. 12 March 2017. Archant Media Company.
- ^ "Deaths". No. 12 Month 1848. Edward Grubb. The British Friend. 1848.
- ^ Peter Cave, ed. (1993). Peckovers of Wisbech. National Trust. p. 1.
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