Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon
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Robert Scott Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon, QC (5 September 1936— 6 November 2005 ) was a British barrister, banker and Conservative politician.
Educated at Brighton College and King's College, Cambridge, Bob Alexander was one of the leading barristers of his generation and served as Chairman of the Bar Council 1985-86. He retired from the Bar in 1989, and served as Chairman of the NatWest bank from 1989-99. He was also a Director of other companies, a member of the Government's Panel on Sustainable Development and Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2000 until ill-health forced him to retire in 2004. He served the MCC as President and Chairman. He was Chancellor of the University of Exeter from 1998-2005. He was also the Chair of JUSTICE, the human rights and law reform group, from 1990-2005 and served on the Wakeham Commission's report into the reform of the House of Lords.
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.
He was married three times and died from a stroke in 2005, aged 69.
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