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Monday, February 13, 2006

Lord Alexander of Weedon, QC

The Lord Alexander of Weedon, QC, a life baron, barrister and Conservative politician, chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company, died 6 November, 2005.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1861758,00.html
Alexander was Chairman of the Bar Council 1985-86. He served as Chairman of the NatWest bank 1989-99 and was a Director of other companies. He was a member of the Government's Panel on Sustainable Development and Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Companyfrom 2000.
Alexander was created a life peer as Baron Alexander of Weedon, of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire, in 1988. He sat on the Conservative Party benches.
Robert Scott Alexander was born 5 September, 1936, and educated at Brighton College, and at King's College, Cambridge.
He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 1961; QC 1973; Bencher 1979; &c.

Source: The Times 8 Nov, 2005

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