page_title: John Alexander (chief clerk)
hierarchical_section_title: John Alexander (chief clerk)
caption_attribution_description: English: John Alexander (chief clerk to Bow Street Police Court), formally dressed in top hat but holding a racquet, with his second wife Mary Elizabeth (daughter of Vulcan Iron Works owner Robinson Thwaites) seated with dog in a garden, probably High Bank, Arnside, Lancashire.
context_page_description: John Alexander was Chief Clerk to Bow Street Magistrates' Court, then called Bow Street Police Court, and simultaneously, as was then the custom, Editor of the Police Gazette in England from 1877 until his retirement in 1895.
context_section_description: John Alexander (Wooler, 28 December 1830 – 3 October 1916, Sevenoaks) was Chief Clerk to Bow Street Magistrates' Court, then called Bow Street Police Court (as seen in Alexander's summons to James McNeil Whistler), and simultaneously, as was then the custom, Editor of the Police Gazette in England from 1877 until his retirement in 1895.
caption: John Alexander formally dressed in a garden with wife Mary Elizabeth (née Thwaites), about 1875.
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