Definitions for "William Alexander"
Keywords:  alexander, ndash, stirling, earl, sir
William Alexander (1726 – 1783), styled Lord Stirling, was an American major general during the American Revolutionary War.
William Alexander (1824–1911) was an Irish cleric in the Church of Ireland. He was born in Derry on the 13 April 1824, the third child of Rev Robert Alexander. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Brasenose College Oxford.
Sir William Alexander (c. 1602 – 18 May 1638) was the founder, in 1629, of the Scottish colony at Port-Royal, now the site of modern Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. He was the son of colonizer William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, but predeceased his father and never assumed his title.