Alexander, James
(d. 1815?), historian of the battle of New Ross and miscellaneous writer, was a native of Harristown, near Monastereven, Co. Kildare. Nothing has been ascertained of his family other than that he had a brother, Wentworth, and that he was a cousin-german of Sir William Stamer, a lord mayor of Dublin. Alexander, who served the king in the American war, was in
Sources
James Alexander, Some account of the . . . late rebellion (1800); James Alexander, An amusing summer-companion (1814); T. Crofton Croker, Researches in the south of Ireland (1824), 218; O'Donoghue; Tom Dunne, Rebellions: memoir, memory and 1798 (2004), esp. 152–3, 208–13, 215, 225–44