[Alexander James Beresford]. English statesman and author, born in London on the 25th of January 1820. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge; member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1841 to 1852, and again in 1857; for Stoke-upon-Trent in 1865; for Cambridge in 1868, and until his death He took an active part in promoting artistic church architecture. He published Letters on Church Matters (1851); The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century (1861); and the novels Strictly Tied Up (1880) and The Brandreths (1882). During the American Civil War he was chairman of the Southern Independence Association. He died on the 20th of October 1887.
