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Reginald Gervase AlexanderFLS (20 February 1847 – 14 February 1916) was a British medical doctor and authority ontuberculosis. After his death, he was recognized as the 15thBaron Cobham.[1]
Reginald Gervase Alexander was the son of Dr. William Alexander of Blackwall Lodge,Halifax,West Yorkshire,Yorkshire (3 September 1806 – 13 April 1888), Fellow of theRoyal College of Physicians ofLondon andJustice of the Peace for theWest Riding of Yorkshire, and his wife (married 4 October 1837) Emily Kirby (died 26 April 1862), daughter of Samuel Kirby of Grove House,Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. He had an older brother, Arthur William Alexander (2 August 1843 – 15 February 1895), who died unmarried and without issue. His uncle Gervase Alexander (30 September 1802 – 23 September 1871) married his aunt Eliza Kirby on 16 October 1838, while his aunt Ellen Alexander (10 December 1803 – 27 September 1854) married John Clarke Prescott (died 16 May 1863) on 20 February 1839.
In February 1857, he was admitted to Heath Grammar School, Halifax. In 1867, he was admitted toSt John's College, Cambridge.[2] He graduated from theUniversity of Cambridge, with aMaster of Arts degree and from theUniversity of Edinburgh, as aDoctor of Medicine, and became a Fellow of theLinnean Society of London.
TheCommittee for Privileges and Conduct of theHouse of Lords declared on 22 July 1912 that he was one of the co-heirs of the titles ofBaron Burgh andBaron Cobham (of (Cobham, in) Kent) (except for theattainder), and on 11 May 1914 that he was one of the co-heirs of the title ofBaron Strabolgi. He never had, however, the chance of succeeding in any of these titles, nominately to the Barony Cobham, since the attainder that had fallen onHenry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, in 1603, though finally removed in September 1916, was only lifted after his own death.[1]
He married on 29 May 1879 Alicia Mary Greenwood (died 30 December 1913), daughter of John Greenwood of Castle Hall,Mytholmroyd,Calderdale, West Yorkshire, and had four children: