Constituency : Glasgow Bridgeton 1918-22
The December 1910 result produced a near-identical result to January with the Liberals having a net loss of 3 seats, the Conseratives dropping one and small gains for Labour and the Irish parties. The Liberal Unionists did slightly better with 4 net gains.
Alexander took over from James Cleland at Glasgow Bridgeton.
Alexander was a barrister. He was a close friend of Churchill and wrote a biography of him as early as 1905. He supported secular education. He was London-based and was a Lewisham town councillor.
Alexander was a social radical. He rarely spoke in Parliament. He disliked the practice of English members sitting for Scottish constituencies and supported Scottish Home Rule. He looked to Irish Home Rule as providing a trigger for a federal solution all round.
Alexander was a strong opponent of female suffrage and published tracts for the National League for Opposing Women's Suffrage in 1912.
Alexander wrote another book about Churchill in 1916. He supported Lloyd George and received the coupon in 1918.
Alexander was a reformist PPS from 1917 to 1919 and briefly a whip in 1922.
Alexander was defeated in 1922 when James Maxton was the beneficiary of a huge increase in turnout. In 1924 he joined Labour himself and published From Liberalism To Labour in 1927.
Alexander wrote a number of travel works.
He died in a plane crash in Canada in 1928 aged 54. His son stayed with the Liberals.
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