HENRY

Alexander . b. Lough brick land, co. Down 1783; came from U.S. America and settled in Palace st. Manchester as an American house doing an export trade in cotton and woollen goods 1804; cro ed the Atlantic 30 times; opened houses at Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leicester, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast; member of Anti-Corn law league 1838; M.P. South Lancashire 20 Dec. 1847 to June 1852; entertained Ko uth 1850; lost his sight many years before his death. d. Harrogate 4 Oct. 1862. London Society (Nov. 1880) 446–62; Hunt’s Merchant’s Mag. xix , 63–67 (1848), xxxiv , 36–45 (1856).