Reginald Gervase Alexander of Blackwall Lodge, Halifax, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, FLS was a British nobleman and medical doctor.
Background
Reginald Gervase Alexander was the son of Doctor William Alexander of Blackwell Lodge, Halifax, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire (3 September 1806 - 13 April 1888), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and wife (married 4 October 1837) Emily Kirby (died 26 April 1862), daughter of Samuel Kirby of Grove House, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, 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.
Education
He graduated from University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, with a Master of Arts degree and from University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, with a Doctor of Medicine degree, and became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
Career
In February 1857 he was admitted to Heath Grammar School, Halifax. In 1867 he was admitted to Street John"s College, Cambridge. The Committee for Privileges and Conduct of the House of Lords declared on 22 July 1912 that he was one of the co-heirs of the titles of Baron Burgh and Baron Cobham (of (Cobham, in) Kent) (except for the attainder), and on 11 May 1914 that he was one of the co-heirs of the title of Baron 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 on Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham in 1603, though finally removed in 1916, was only lifted after his own death.
