Reference
Z1687/1
Title
Material relating to Edward Thomas Howard Alexander (1902-1986)
Date free text
1920s-30s
Admin/biog history
Edward Thomas Howard Alexander was born in Wiltshire in 1902, the son of Edward Perkins Alexander and his wife Lucy. He became a pupil with W H Allen, Sons & Company in 1921 and was awarded prizes by the company in 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924. In 1925 he went to India, writing in the W H Allen magazine of 1930 that he had not expected to be away from India for more than 12 months when he left Bedford but remaining five years. He worked for W H Brady & Co in India, who were probably agents for W H Allen products. He was still in India at the outbreak of World War Two and joined the Indian Army as an engineer becoming a Lt Colonel. He returned to Wiltshire, England after the war and became a managing director of the family's woollen mil in Trowbridge. He died on the 10 January 1986.
Level of description
sub-fonds