ALEXANDER, SIR GEORGE English actor, whose family name was Samson, was born in Reading on June 19, 1858, and died on March 16, 1918. He made his first appearance on the London stage as Caleb Deecie in Two Roses in 1881 with Irving at the Lyceum. In 1891 he became manager of the St. James's theatre. There he produced a number of successful plays by Oscar Wilde, Pinero, C. Haddon Chambers, H. A. Jones, Alfred Sutro and others, he himself taking the lead ing roles. Sir George Alexander was the type of the successful actor-manager on the London stage in the beginning of the loth century. In 1907 he was elected a member of the London County Council as a municipal reformer. He received a K.C.B. in 1911.