Surgeon-Oculist to Queen Victoria, and Surgeon to Cork Street Eye Infirmary. He succeeded to the practice of Sir Wathen Waller, and was succeeded as oculist to the Queen by Sir William White Cooper (qv). He is said to have been especially successful in cataract operations, which he always undertook single-handed. He operated upon the Duke of Sussex. An unfriendly notice of him says “He was well known in the West End of London as an oculist and was much respected in his own circle, but he was not remarkable for his scientific labours. He is likely to leave the science of his profession in the state in which he found it.” He died at 6 Cork Street, Piccadilly, W, on Jan 20th, 1859, leaving a son, Charles R Alexander, who became Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye.