Alexander Charles Ewald
Alexander Charles Ewald (1842–1891) was an English civil servant, known as a historical writer. Life. He was born at Jerusalem, the son of Christian Ferdinand Ewald (1802–1874), who from a Jewish family became a Christian convert working for the London Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Jews. He was educated abroad and was appointed to a clerkship in the Public Record Office in 1861, rising to be senior clerk by 1890. He died at 31 Victoria Road, Upper Norwood, on 20 June 1891. Works. While at the Public Record Office, Ewald was mainly responsible for the  completion of the work begun by Thomas Duffus Hardy in 1835: a full calendar and précis of the "Norman Rolls-Henry V". It was printed in vols. xli. and xlii. of the "Deputy-keeper's Reports" (1880 and 1881), and supplemented by a glossary prepared by Ewald. He also wrote less technical historical works, including: