James Du Pre Alexander, 3rd Earl of Caledon (27 July 1812 – 30 June 1855), styled Viscount Alexander from birth until 1839, was a soldier and politician.[citation needed]
He married Lady Jane Frederica Harriot Mary Grimston, daughter of
James Walter Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam and Lady Charlotte Jenkinson, on 4 September 1845 at St. Michael's,
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, and had the following children:
Hon. Walter Philip Alexander (9 February 1849 - 30 October 1934), a lieutenant colonel in the 2nd Dragoons (
Royal Scots Greys) who served in the
Second Boer War from 1899 to 1900 and married Margaret Katherine Grimston (who died 12 September 1929), daughter of Rev. the Hon. Francis Grimston, son of
James Walter Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam, and had issue.
Lady Jane Charlotte Elizabeth Alexander (1 May 1850 - 23 June 1941), who married Captain Edmund Barker Van Koughnet
CMGRNJP (who died 27 March 1905), son of the Honourable
Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnetQC, former Chancellor of
Ontario, and died without issue.
Hon. Charles Alexander (26 January 1854 - 27 October 1909), a major in the 3rd Battalion,
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who in 1880 married Kate Stayner, daughter of Charles Stayner, of
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and had issue.
Lord Caledon died at the age of 42 at his house in
Carlton House Terrace, London, on 30 June 1855 and was buried at
Caledon in
County Tyrone, Ireland. Lady Caledon died on 30 March 1888.
References
^"High Sheriffs 1714-1857". Newry and Louth Advertiser. 10 August 1857.
^* QM John Core, Historical Record of the 2nd (now 80th), or Royal Tyrone Fusilier Regiment of Militia, from the Embodiment in 1793 to the Present Time, Omagh: Alexander Scarlett, 1872/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-84342-484-0, pp. 74–6.
^Arthur Sleigh, The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army List, April 1850, London: British Army Despatch Press, 1850/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 1991, ISBN 978-1-84342-410-9, p. 117.