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Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon

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Per fess Azure and Gules between two swords in pale points upward Argent hilts pommels and quillons Or a tower Argent pierced of a cross Gules masoned proper and with a portcullis Or infess with two towers each issuant in the flanks masoned and with a portal
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Upon a chapeau Gules encircled by a coronet rayonny Or and turned up Ermine a lion sejant Or head and mane Gules collared ermine supporting by its staff Or spearheaded also Or a banner of the arms fringed Argent and
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Dexter, a lamb statant erect in trian aspect collared Ermine unguled Or; Sinister, a lion statant erect Or head and mane in trian aspect Gules collared Ermine.
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from 1989 to 1999. He was also a director of other companies, a member of the Government's Panel on
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in 1972. Alexander was one of the leading barristers of his generation and served as Chairman of the
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GRO Register of Deaths: NOV 2005 C74 297 LAMBETH – Robert Scott Alexander, DoB: 5 Sep 1936, aged 69
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The Last English Birth Control Trial, by John Peel, Galton Institute newsletter, Sep 1997
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GRO Register of Births: DEC 1936 6b 47 NEWCASTLE L. – Robert S. Alexander, mmn = Trevitt
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from 2000 until ill-health forced him to retire in 2004. He served the
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1985–86. As a barrister he came to greater public fame representing
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in 1961. An early case of note was his successful defence of Dr
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Coat of arms of Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon
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When offered a peerage, Alexander requested that he be "of
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He retired from the Bar in 1989, and served as Chairman of
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as its president and chairman. He was chancellor of the
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British barrister, banker and Conservative politician
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Baron Alexander of Weedon
The Right Honourable
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Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire
Lambeth
London
Barrister
Chancellor
University of Exeter
QC
FRSA
barrister
Conservative
Brighton College
King's College, Cambridge
called to the Bar
Middle Temple
Caroline Deys
General Medical Council
Bar Council
Lord Archer
Daily Star
National Westminster Bank
Sustainable Development
Royal Shakespeare Company
MCC
University of Exeter

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