Cable-Alexander baronets

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Cable-Alexander baronets
Arms of Alexander baronets of Dublin.svg
Escutcheon of the Alexander, later Cable-Alexander baronets, of Dublin
Creation date1809 [1]
Statusextant
MottoPer mare, per terras, By sea and land [1]

The Alexander, later Cable-Alexander Baronetcy, of the City of Dublin, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. [2] It was created on 11 December 1809 for William Alexander, Lord Mayor of Dublin. The second Baronet was a Director of the Bank of Ireland. The third Baronet was Attorney-General to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The seventh Baronet assumed in 1931 by deed poll the additional surname of Cable. As of 31 December 2013 the present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant. [3]

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This branch of the Irish Alexander family is descended from William Alexander, whose brother Nathaniel Alexander was the ancestor of the Earls of Caledon and the Earls Alexander of Tunis.

Alexander, later Cable-Alexander baronets, of the City of Dublin (1809)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Fergus William Antony Cable-Alexander (born 1981). [8]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. London: Debrett's Peerage. 2000. p. B17. ISBN   033354577X.
  2. "No. 16320". The London Gazette . 28 November 1809. p. 1909.
  3. "Official Roll of the Baronetage » the Standing Council of the Baronetage –". Archived from the original on 6 March 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. pp. 4–5.
  5. 1 2 Burke, Bernard (1903). Ashworth P. Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (65th ed.). London: Harrison and Sons. p. 30.
  6. "Alexander, Sir Lionel Cecil William" . Who's Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 7 November 2021.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "Cable-Alexander, Sir Desmond William Lionel" . Who's Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 7 November 2021.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. 1 2 "Cable-Alexander, Lt-Col Sir Patrick (Desmond William)" . Who's Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 7 November 2021.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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Alexander baronets
of the City of Dublin

11 December 1809
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