Patrick Proctor Alexander
1823–86
Author. Educated at St Andrew’s, Scotland. Retired from business in 1860. Contributed prose and verse to newspapers and periodicals, and wrote for encyclopaedias. Assistant to John Ferguson McLennan on the Law Amendment Society for Scotland.
Sources
CDEL
letter from J. F. McLennan, 24 March 1871.
Bibliography
CDEL: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century … with forty indexes of subjects. By S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. London: Trübner. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson; J. B. Lippincott. 1859–71. A supplement to Allibone’s critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. By John Foster Kirk. 2 vols. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott. 1891.
