A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough

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The Right Honourable The Earl Alexander of Hillsborough KG CH PC
Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
In office 14 December 1955 – 16 October 1964
Party Leader	Hugh Gaitskell Harold Wilson
Preceded by	The Earl Jowitt
Succeeded by	The Lord Carrington
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 28 February 1950 – 26 October 1951
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Hugh Dalton
Succeeded by	The Viscount Swinton
Minister of Defence
In office 20 December 1946 – 28 February 1950
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Clement Attlee
Succeeded by	Manny Shinwell
First Lord of the Admiralty
In office 3 August 1945 – 4 October 1946
Monarch	George VI
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Brendan Bracken
Succeeded by	George Hall
In office 11 May 1940 – 25 May 1945
Monarch	George VI
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Winston Churchill
Succeeded by	Brendan Bracken
In office 7 June 1929 – 24 August 1931
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by	William Bridgeman
Succeeded by	Sir Austen Chamberlain
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
In office 23 January 1924 – 4 November 1924
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by	Viscount Wolmer
Succeeded by	Robert Burton-Chadwick
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 27 February 1950 – 11 January 1965 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	Peerage created
Succeeded by	Peerage extinct
Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough
In office 14 November 1935 – 23 February 1950
Preceded by	Gurney Braithwaite
Succeeded by	George Darling
In office 15 November 1922 – 27 October 1931
Preceded by	Arthur Neal
Succeeded by	Gurney Braithwaite
Personal details
Born	(1885-05-01)1 May 1885 Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England
Died	11 January 1965(1965-01-11) (aged 79) London, England
Political party	Labour and Co-operative
Spouse	Esther Chapple ​ (m. 1908)​

Albert Victor Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, KG, CH, PC (1 May 1885 – 11 January 1965) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician. He was three times First Lord of the Admiralty, including during the Second World War, and then Minister of Defence under Clement Attlee.