18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Marjorie Carter    
                Born: 27 Dec 1900          in London  1,2 (see note 1)
             Resided: 1934                 at 13 Barrow Road, Trumpington  3
             Resided: 1939                 in Surrey  1 (see note 2)
                Died: 1978                 in London  4 (see note 3)
              Father:
              Mother:
Other spouse 2
             Husband: Albert George Rickards Alexander     
             Married: 1932                 in London  2 (see note 4)
                Born: 1898                 in London  2 (see note 5)
          Occupation:                      Solicitor  5
             Resided: 1933 - 1934          at 13 Barrow Road, Trumpington  3,6
                Died: 1935                 in Surrey  2 (see note 6)
              Father:
              Mother:

Sources:
(1) 1939 Register. 
(2) FreeBMD website. 
(3) Electoral Register. 
(4) Index on ancestry.co.uk. 
(5) Newspaper report. 
(6) Spalding's Directory (Kelly's after WW2) 


Event Notes
Note (1) Mar 1901 Kensington 1a 111
Note (2) Widow, incapacitated, with (probably) mother Helen M Carter
Note (3) Mar 1978 Lambeth 14 0015   born 27 Dec 1900
Note (4) Jun 1932 St George Hanover Square 1a 994
Note (5) Mar 1898 Mile End 1c 496
Note (6) Jun 1935 Surrey S E 2a 572   age 37.
"From the Daily Herald, 26 April 1935: The mystery death of a solicitor whose
body was found lying near the footpath at Duke's Warren, a Surrey beauty spot
near Dorking, will be investigated today by the Dorking coroner.
The dead man, Mr Albert George Rickards Alexander, was until recently a
partner in the firm of Squires and Co., solicitors, of Peas Hill, Cambridge. 
The partnership was dissolved last December.
The body was found on Tuesday and police enquiries were made at Cambridge and
Dorking.
Recently Alexander obtained a sleeping draught prescription.
After the dissolution of the Cambridge partnership Alexander obtained an
appointment with Messrs Keith Erskine and Lawson, solicitors, of Hanover Square,
W.  He had been living at Greenford, Middlesex, and at Ealing."
The West Sussex Gazette, 2 May 1935, carried a report of the coroner's
findings.  "A verict was recorded of death from a narcotic poison,
self-administered while temporarily of unsound mind. . . Robert Lewis Alexander
said that his brother was out of business, and had been very depressed on
account of financial worry. . ."

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