William Alexander (Quaker)
William Alexander was an English Quaker, businessman, educator, bookseller, publisher and author, who wrote under the name Amicus.He was third surviving son of Dykes Alexander, a Quaker elder, and Martha Biddle, a Quaker minister, His sister was Mary Alexander, author and Quaker evangelist. as well as Dykes Alexander. He was educated in Wandsworth. Then in 1782 he was apprenticed to Joseph Brown a miller of Luton. Then in 1786 he returned to Needham Market where he worked as a mealman.Later life
By 1808 he was living in York. Here he was in charge of a girls' school, in Castlegate until 1810. Then he worked as a Printer, Stationer & Bookseller in York, where he started the Annual Monitor in 1811 and established Sessions of York.. He was appointed a Director of the Friends Provident Institution. He was made a Freeman of the City of York in 1813 and served as Chamberlain of the city in 1818.Works
