A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Alexander, Sir William
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ALEXANDER, Sir WILLIAM.
Judge.
1754—1842.
Admitted 3 May, 1771.
Son and heir of William Alexander, of Edinburgh, where he was born in the year 1754. He was called to the Bar 22 Nov. 1782. After practising in the Court of Chancery with high reputation as an equity and real property lawyer for nearly twenty years, he was rewarded with a silk gown in 1800. He became one of the Masters in Chancery in the year 1809, and Chief Baron on 9 Jan. 1824, on which occasion he was made a Privy Councillor and knighted. In Dec. 1830, he resigned to enable Lord Lyndhurst to take his place as Lord Chief Baron, and retired to his estate at Airdrie, in the county of Lanark. He died in London 29 June, 1842.