Capt. Frederick Lewis ALFORD RA ²

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http://www.alfordassociation.org/AFN/afn_16.pdf THE ALFORDS OF LYME REGIS, OTTERY, ESCOTT, AND FARWAY pp. 102-112

We return here to the Lewis Alford Family, whose connection with Dorsetshire appears in Table VI [AAFA ACTION March 1991, p. 22]. The Alford entries in the Bridport registers ceased in 1729, after a continuous record of over one hundred and thirty years. Descendants of the Bridport stock spread into Devonshire, and we find entries in the registers at Wear Gifford (1763-1806), High Bickington (1771-1848), Ashreigney (1786-1869), Chawleigh (1816-1853), and neighbouring parishes. The present head of the Devonshire family is Colonel Frederick Lewis Alford, of Bickham, Roborough, South Devon. His grandfather, Samuel Alford (b. 1793, d. 1853), had one son, the late Mr. Lewis Alford, F.R.G.S. (b. 1830), who married (1) Fanny, daughter of the late R. Boorn, by whom he had a son, Frederick, and (2) Florence, daughter of Colonel St amford, Bombay Horse Artillery, by whom he had two sons, Henry and Charles. Colonel Alford was educated at Harrow and Woolwich, served for several years in the Royal Artillery, and was appointed, in 1903, to the command of the Glamorgan Artillery Militia. He married, in 1893, Emmeline McNeale, of the family of Mount Pleasant, co. Louth, and related on her mother's side to Lord Carbery's family. He has one son, Lewis McNe ill Alford (born 1898), and one daughter, Margaret. Captain Henry Stamford Lewis Alford, F.R.G.S., of Dalcross Castle, Inverness-shire, the second son, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. He held a commission in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and saw service with the Nile Expeditionary Force, 1896 (Queen's me dal and Khedive's medal and clasp), and in South Africa 1900-01 (medal with five clasps). He wrote, in collaboration with W.D. Sword, The Egyptian Soudan (Macmillan, 1898), which is referred to as an authoritative work in the Statesman's Year Book . He is now a Captain in the 3rd Battalion Cameron Highlanders, and a Member of the Royal Company of Archers, H.M.'s Bodyguard for Scotland. Charles Egerton Alford, the third son of this family, was also at Harrow, and afterwards at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Frederick married Emmeline Evans McNEALE, daughter of John Donald McNEALE of Faughart and Margaret EVANS, on 30 Sep 1893 in Cheltenham, Gloucester, England.¹ (Emmeline Evans McNEALE was born in 1863 in Egremont, Cheshire, England.)