Background
Alchin was born at Saint Mary-at-Hill, Billingsgate in the City of London.
Alchin was born at Saint Mary-at-Hill, Billingsgate in the City of London.
Foreign some years he practised as a solicitor at Winchester. On the retirement of William Herbert as librarian of the Guildhall Library, London in 1845, Alchin was appointed to the office, which he held until his death, which occurred at Chelsea on 3 February 1865.