He was 59 at the time of his second marriage, and died when Alexander ( known as Alec ) was seven.

He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward ( Alec ) Cook ( 1906 – 1984 ), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo ( 1908 – 1994 ).

Note: Although Grant's baptismal record records his middle name as " Alec ", it is " Alexander " on his birth certificate.

Niven played Alexander ' Alec ' Fleming, one of a family of retired con artists who now fleece villains in the interests of justice.

Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, it stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner and Katie Johnson.

Writers who are or have been residents of Kingston include Steven Heighton, Bronwen Wallace, Helen Humphreys, Michael Ondaatje, Joanne Page, Diane Schoemperlen, Eric Folsom, Michael Crummey, Melanie Dugan, Mark Sinnett, Mary Alice Downie, Robertson Davies, Douglas Fetherling, Wayne Grady, Merilyn Simonds, Ellen Stafford, Alec Ross, Jamie Swift, Carolyn Smart, Sarah Tsiang, Joanne Stanbridge, Laurie Lewis, and Alexander Scala.

Alexander " Alec " Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel ( ), KT, PC ( 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995 ) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from October 1963 to October 1964.

The authors Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh, the journalist Claud Cockburn, Claudia Cockburn ( wife of actor Michael Flanders ) and author Sarah Caudwell were all descended from Cockburn, as are journalists Laura Flanders, Stephanie Flanders, Alexander Cockburn ( husband of author Emma Tennant ), Andrew Cockburn ( husband of journalist Leslie Cockburn ) and Patrick Cockburn ( son-in-law of Bishop Hugh Montefiore ) and actress Olivia Wilde ( former wife of Tao Ruspoli ).

Alexander Raban Waugh ( Alec Waugh ) ( 8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981 ), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher.

Alexander Rae " Alec " Baldwin III ( born April 3, 1958 ) is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.

He has been portrayed on film three times: in the 1951 film Sirocco ( dealing with the Syrian insurrection against France ), by Jeff Corey ; David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), played by Alec Guinness, and in the unofficial sequel to Lawrence, A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia ( 1990 ) by Alexander Siddig.

Other composers who have written for the instrument include Béla Bartók, Alec Wilder, Stephen Caudel, Andrew Downes, Felix Draeseke, Alexander Kaloian, Elisabeth Lutyens, Michael Nyman, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Ragnar Søderlind, Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varèse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Alexander Prior

Alec Empire ( born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on 2 May 1972 in Charlottenburg, West Berlin ) is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot.

One was the economist Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross ( a. k. a. Alec Cairncross ).

He went bankrupt in 1987 after skeptics James Randi and Alexander ( Alec ) Jason exposed his method of receiving information about revival attendees from his wife via an in-ear receiver.

Foreign honorary members have included Leonhard Euler, Marquis de Lafayette, Alexander von Humboldt, Leopold von Ranke, Charles Darwin, Jawaharlal Nehru, Werner Heisenberg, and Alec Guinness.

Sir Alexander Russell Downer KBE ( 7 April 1910 – 30 March 1981 ), Australian politician and diplomat generally known as Alec or Alick.

The most famous recent holder of the title was the 14th Earl, Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, better known as Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

Alec is the Scottish form of Alex, a given name related to Alexander.

* Alexander, Alexandra → Al, Alec, Alexis, Alex, Eck, Lex, Lexie, Sandy, Xander

Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, she moved to Los Angeles when her father, Alec Alexander, an agent who handled at that point such notables as Frank Gorshin and Sal Mineo, decided to make the switch from the east to the west coast.

Nicholson's second volume of poetry A Chaplet of Southernwood ( 1896 ), celebrated the beauty of another Rydal Mount pupil ( 1891 – 94 ), William Alexander ( Alec ) Melling ( 1878 – 1962 ).

It starred Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, and Cecil Parker, and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick.

The Waugh family connection with Midsomer Norton began when Dr Alexander Waugh, father of Arthur Waugh and grandfather of Evelyn Waugh and Alec Waugh moved to Island House, which had been built in the early 18th century, in The Island in the centre of the town in 1865.

The Bishop of Glasgow, James the Steward, and Sir Alexander Lindsay became sureties for Bruce until he delivered his infant daughter Marjorie as a hostage which he never did, and he was soon actively fighting for the Scots again.

In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ' Independent Progressive ' candidate against the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg, in the Oxford by-election, 1938.

* David Lindsay, 1st Lord Balcarres, son of John Lindsay of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir and father of Alexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres, was married here in 1611

A series of disagreements between the Chief Justiciary of Arbroath, Alexander Lindsay, third Earl of Crawford, and Bishop James Kennedy of St Andrews resulted in Lindsay sacking the bishop's lands and burning his properties.

The monks of Arbroath Abbey selected Alexander Ogilvy of Inverquharity as his replacement and the insult led to pitched battle in the town, leaving 500 dead, including Lindsay and Ogilvy.

A legend tells of the 15th-century " Earl Beardie ", who has been identified with both Alexander Lyon, 2nd Lord Glamis ( died 1486 ), and with Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford ( died 1453 ).

Another legend tells of " Earl Beardie ", who has been identified with both Alexander Lyon, 2nd Lord Glamis, and Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford.

" Despite this, he made a number of friends and allies in Edinburgh, including Sir W. Lindsay Scott, Alexander Curle, J. G.

The land was purchased by Alexander Lindsay Glen, a native of Scotland, from the Mohawk people in the 17th century.

* William Lindsay Alexander, theologian

According to its account, the king accused the Earl ( probably with justification ) of forging links with John Macdonald, 11th Earl of Ross ( also Lord of the Isles ), and Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford.

Alexander Montgomerie's The Cherrie and the Slae in 1700, shortly over a decade later an edition of poems by Sir David Lindsay, nine printings of Allan Ramsay's The Gentle shepherd between 1743 and 1793, and an edition of Robert Burns ' poetry in 1787, the same year as the Edinburgh edition, followed by reprints in 1789, 1793 and 1800.

Fifteen years later, in 1452, it was at Stirling Castle that James stabbed and killed William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, when the latter refused to end a potentially treasonous alliance with the John of Islay, Earl of Ross and the Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford.

One of his drawing pupils was Margaret Lindsay, eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelick and Amelia Murray ( granddaughter to David Murray, 5th Viscount of Stormont and sister to the naval officer John Lindsay ).

* 1953 Succeeds Alexander Lindsay as Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire ( now Keele University ).

The Lindsay Award is considered to be the companion of the Hart Memorial Trophy — fourteen players have won both trophies for the same season: Guy Lafleur ( 1976 – 77 and 1977 – 78 ), Wayne Gretzky ( 1981 – 82, 1982 – 83, 1983 – 84, 1984 – 85 and 1986 – 87 ), Mario Lemieux ( 1987 – 88 and 1992 – 93 and 1995 – 96 ), Mark Messier ( 1989 – 90 and 1991 – 92 ), Brett Hull ( 1990 – 91 ), Sergei Fedorov ( 1993 – 94 ), Eric Lindros ( 1994 – 95 ), Dominik Hasek ( 1996 – 97 and 1997 – 98 ), Jaromir Jagr ( 1998 – 99 ), Joe Sakic ( 2000 – 01 ), Martin St. Louis ( 2003 – 04 ), Sidney Crosby ( 2006 – 07 ), Alexander Ovechkin ( 2007 – 08 and 2008 – 09 ) and Evgeni Malkin ( 2011 – 12 ).

In 2012, bronze and glass handrails, funded by a private donation from Rouge Herald Extraordinary Roger Alexander Lindsay, were added to each side of the stair in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

Translated by Alexander Bertram Lindsay.