Sir Douglas Alexander, 1st Baronet

Sir Douglas Alexander, 1st Baronet (4 July 1864 – 22 May 1949

Alexander was created a baronet of Edgehill, near Stamford, Connecticut, on 2 July 1921, by King George V in the 1921 Birthday Honours for his services to the welfare of industrial workers during World War I.

Personal life In 1892, Alexander was married to Helen Hamilton Gillespie (1864–1923), the daughter of George Hamilton Gillespie and Elizabeth Agnes Gillespie. Together, they were the parents of: Archibald Gillespie Alexander (1907–1978), who became a Lieutenant commander in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. He married Margery Isabel Griffith, daughter of Arthur Brown Griffith.

Lady Alexander died on 19 March 1923 at The Dakota, their New York City residence at 1 West 72nd Street, and her funeral was thereafter held at Hamilton, Ontario. In October 1925, an armed robber broke into the Alexander residence on Palmer Road in Stamford, Connecticut, pushing his daughter Agnes down, slashing his son Douglas, and stealing $81.

Sir Douglas died at the Stamford Hospital on 22 May 1949. In his will he left his entire estate to his eldest son and no provision for his daughter and son Archibald, "for the reason that they are otherwise amply provided for." After his death, the family sold the 22 acre Connecticut estate, the home was torn down and, in the early 1990s, a retirement community was built there.

Descendants Through his second son Archibald, he was the grandfather of Sir Douglas Alexander, 3rd Baronet (b. 1936), who became the third baronet in 1983 upon the death of his uncle, the second baronet. The third baronet married Marylon Scatterday, daughter of Leonidas Collins Scatterday, in 1958. His two other grandchildren were Archibald Bonsall Alexander (b. 1940) and Margery Griffith Alexander (b. 1945).

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