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'''Charles Dallas Alexander''' (25 December 1839 – 22 January 1917) was an Indian-born English lawyer, engineer and school teacher who played [[cricket]] for [[Kent County Cricket Club]]. He was born at [[Calcutta]], the third son of William and Janet Alexander. His father worked in the [[Bengal Civil Service]] and served for a time as a judge at [[Bhagalpur]].<ref name=ci>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8702.html Charles Alexander], [[CricInfo]]. Retrieved 2017-03-19.</ref><ref name=carlaw>Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 26–27. ([https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_One_Revised_Expanded.pdf Available online] at the [[Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians]]. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)</ref><ref name=ac30>Venn JA (ed) (1940) Alexander, William Stuart in ''[[Alumni Cantabrigienses]]'', p.30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ([https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri01univuoft/page/30 Available online]. Retrieved 2019-12-22.)</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Alexander was educated at [[Harrow School]], [[Cheltenham College]] and [[King's College School]], London. He went up to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] in 1859 and graduated in 1863 after being admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in London to study Law in 1861.<ref name=ac28>Venn JA (ed) (1940) Alexander, Charles Dallas in ''[[Alumni Cantabrigienses]]'', p.28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ([https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri01univuoft/page/28 Available online]. Retrieved 2019-12-22.)</ref><br />
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==Cricket==<br />
Alexander had played in the Cheltenham cricket XI and at university,<ref name=cc132>Hunter AA (ed) (1890) ''Cheltenham College Register, 1841–1889'', p.132. London: George Bell & Sons. ([https://archive.org/details/cheltenhamcolle00huntgoog/page/n173 Available online]. Retrieved 2019-12-22.)</ref> although not for the full Cambridge side, as well as for Town Malling and the Gentlemen of Kent. He made a single [[first-class cricket]] appearance during the 1864 season against [[England national cricket team|England]]. He scored eight runs in the first innings of the match and three runs in the second, in a match in which Kent fielded thirteen players to England's eleven.<ref name=carlaw/><ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27444/27444.html Charles Alexander], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-03-19. {{subscription}}</ref><br />
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==Professional and later life==<br />
Professionally Alexander enjoyed a varied career. He abandoned a legal career in favour of engineering, becoming an Associate of the [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] in 1868 and taking up a position at the [[London, Chatham & Dover Railway]]'s [[Longhedge Railway Works (Battersea)|Longhedge Locomotive Works]] at [[Battersea]]. By the 1881 census he had moved to become headteacher at Grange School in [[Ewell]] before moving back into engineering by 1888.<ref name=carlaw/> He also seems to have worked as a private tutor.<ref name=cc132/><br />
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Alexander married Helen Shuldham. The couple had at least five children, one of whom went up to Cambridge in 1896.<ref name=carlaw/><ref name=ac28/> In later life he appears to have suffered from some form of mental collapse and was living in private medical care at both the 1901 and 1911 census.<ref name=carlaw/> He died at [[Tankerton]] in [[Kent]] in 1917 aged 77.<ref name=ci/><br />
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