On 1st May 1885
THE EARL ALEXANDER
OF HILLSBOROUGH
KG, PC, CH
Was born in this house.
First Lord of the Admiralty,
during World War 11.
Died 11 January 1965.
Buried in Weston Cemetery.
Given the Freedom of the Borough 1943.
Created Baron of Weston-super-Mare 1963.

Albert Alexander was born in George Street and lived in Weston until 1921.

He worked as a clerk in Somerset’s education department and became a Baptist lay preacher, NALGO secretary and vice-president of Weston‘s Cooperative Society.

In 1922 he became Co-op/Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough but at the outbreak of the Second World War, Churchill invited him into the coalition cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty, where he gained the reputation of being “Churchill’s favourite socialist”.

He was thrice First Lord and subsequently, Attlee’s Minister of Defence.

He entered the Lords in 1950 and was created Baron Weston-super-Mare in 1963.

He is the only Westonian to have been made a Knight of the Garter and Companion of Honour. Plaque on the wall of 33 George Street BS23 3AT