18 Facts About Horace Alexander

Horace Gundry Alexander was an English Quaker teacher, writer, pacifist and ornithologist.

Horace Alexander was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander, two other sons being the ornithologists Wilfred Backhouse Alexander and Christopher James Alexander.

Horace Alexander's father, Joseph Gundry Alexander, was an eminent lawyer, who had worked to suppress the opium trade between India and China.

Horace Alexander married Olive Graham on 20 July 1918 and joined the staff of Woodbrooke, a Quaker college in Birmingham, teaching international relations, especially in relation to the League of Nations, from 1919 to 1944.

Horace Alexander's wife died in 1942, having used a wheelchair for several years.

That year Horace Alexander joined a section of the World War II Friends Ambulance Unit and went to parts of India that were threatened by Japan.

Horace Alexander was, for its first ten years, a governor of Leighton Park School, a leading Quaker school in England.

Horace Alexander died of a gastrointestinal illness at Crosslands, a Quaker retirement community in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Horace Alexander was a lifelong, dedicated and gifted birdwatcher, keenly involved in the 20th-century movements for the protection and observation of birds.

Horace Alexander was one of a small group of amateur birdwatchers who developed skills and set new standards for combining the pleasures of birdwatching with the satisfaction of contributing to ornithological science.

Horace Alexander made many significant observations, mainly in Britain, but in India and the United States.

Horace Alexander spent most of his time in India and became interested in its birds in 1927.

Horace Alexander joined Sidney Dillon Ripley on an expedition to the Naga Hills in 1950.

Horace Alexander was a founder member, in 1929, of the West Midland Bird Club, and its president, during his long residence in Birmingham, England.

Horace Alexander's father-in-law, John William Graham, believed that Gandhi was a subversive and that the Indians were unprepared for self-government.

Horace Alexander made it possible for Gandhi to attend the 1931 round-table conference in London.

Horace Alexander was consulted by Richard Attenborough in the making of the 1982 film Gandhi.

Horace Alexander made several appearances as a presenter on BBC Radio:.