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142:(VAD) hospital for recuperating soldiers and was returned to the sisters after the war. Alexander's work in the war could have also been more direct as the notice of her death in the Kensington News and West London Times in 1964 states, "In the First World War she worked with the Friends in France, and received a medal from the French government for her work there." In 1926 she was a founding member of the Kensington Housing Trust and she was elected to the Council of the Society that same year. Her involvement lasted until her death in 1964.
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Alexander was greatly involved in local issues in
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her whole life and was active in the local community. In 1909 she was the
Honorary Secretary of the North Kensington Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption. In 1917 she and her sisters donated a substantial number of their late father’s Japanese collection to the Victoria and Albert
190:(London) exhibition in New Gallery, Regent Street, London. The background of the painting contains a large drawing of a woman on horseback (who could be the sitter herself). Rachel owned the painting through at least 1956, when she is cited as the owner by Lillian Browse in her book
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Rachel
Alexander was born on the 13th May 1875 in Kensington, London. She was the second youngest of nine children. Her father William Cleverly Alexander (1840-1916) was a banker in the City of London and worked for his family’s firm Alexanders and Co. (later Alexander’s Discount Co.
161:(1847-1929) became a member of the Society’s executive committee that year, aged 19. Much later in 1925 and again in 1927, when Alexander and her sister Jean Ingelow Alexander (1877-1972) (the "Misses Alexanders") owned the house, Dame Millicent Fawcett returned as part of the
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Kensington in 1936, which celebrated her on its 21st year anniversary in 1957, when she was 80. In 1948 she was the inspiration for opening Ray House, a home for the elderly in Kensington and in 1951 she was also Secretary of the Kensington Holiday Trust.
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to paint a portrait of her when she was 30. The painting was done in 1905 at Bolton
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William C Alexander, aged 30, Harringay House, Hornsey, Middlesex, England. 1871 England Census. The National Archives, RG10/1335/56/1; GSU roll: 828278. www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed April
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Digital image of baptism entry for Rachel
Frances Alexander, born 13 May 1875, baptised 19 June 1875, St Mary, Hornsey, Haringey, England. 'London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms 1813-1923'.
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Census record for Willm. C. Alexander, aged 40, Aubrey House, Kensington, London, England. 1881 England Census. The
National Archives, RG11/27/113/13, GSU roll: 1341006. www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed April
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for "two women delegates of the
British Government to the Geneva Assembly". Their garden and home were frequently opened to raise money for local charities.
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Museum now housed in the
British Museum. The family also contributed Aubrey House to the war effort during World War I. The house became a
1018:"Acquisition: pictures bequeathed by Misses Rachel F. and Jean I. Alexander from the collection formed by their father, William Cleverley Alexander"
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296:, accessed April 2024. Original data: London Metropolitan Archives, "London Church of England Parish Registers, Reference Number: Dro/020/A/01/016
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Ltd). William Cleverly and his wife Rachel Agnes Alexander (née Lucas, 1837-1900) were supporters of the arts and early supporters of
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Alexander died in December 1964 and her younger sister Jean died in 1972. However, in 1959 the sisters had signed a
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r (1873/1876, which were held by the British Museum) as well as advised on redecorating three rooms at the family home
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Reeves, Lucy (18 December 1964). "A Lifetime of Service...Tribute to Miss Rachel Alexander".
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405:"'Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander', James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1872–4"
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201:, William Cleverly Alexander also owned several other paintings by William Nicholson:
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846:"A Holiday House, A Rest House, Two Dinner Clubs and a Television Set".
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380:"'Miss Agnes Mary Alexander', James Abbott McNeill Whistler, c.1873"
327:"William Cleverly Alexander 1840–1916 Collector and Philanthropist"
113:(1872-4), Rachel's elder sister, painted by James McNeill Whistler
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676:"The Early Suffrage Societies in the 19th century-a Timeline"
493:"Combating Consumption: Good Work of Kensington Dispensary".
429:"Whistler Paintings :: Management Pages - People Search"
153:, was the scene of the first meeting of the Committee of the
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Rachel's elder sister, painted by James McNeill Whistler
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524:"British Museum Collection Seach Rachel Alexander"
367:(3): 157–164 – via School of Advanced Study.
336:. National Museum of Asian Art. February 29, 2016
163:National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
111:Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander
89:Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander
939:. Browse & Darby. 22 March – 21 April 1990.
117:Whistler also did sketches for another sister,
361:The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society
145:In 1867 Aubrey House, under the prior owners
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746:"Summer Visits, 1954: 3rd July Aubrey House"
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880:. Yale University Press. pp. 106–107.
973:The Kensington Society Annual Report 1971
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753:The Kensington Society Annual Report 1954
637:The Kensington Society Annual Report 1996
616:The Kensington Society Annual Report 1997
478:"A Quiet Country House on Campden Hill".
357:"The Alexander Family's Discount Company"
766:"Kensington Council of Social Service".
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715:"Garden Party at Aubrey House".
563:Gladstone, Florence, M. (1922).
223:Fuchsias in a Blue and White Jug
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770:. 20 September 1935. p. 2.
497:. 16 November 1910. p. 10.
119:Portrait of Miss Grace Alexande
850:. 25 November 1949. p. 4.
630:"The Kensington Housing Trust"
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248:Rachel Alexander also had her
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814:. 19 July 1951. p. 4.
704:. 31 July 1925. p. 5.
700:"In Aubrey House Garden".
512:. 4 June 1917. p. 19.
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231:Cupids Fighting for a Rose
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800:. 5 July 1957. p. 1.
719:. 1 July 1927. p. 6.
508:"Japanese Works of Art".
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