Alexander Learmonth (politician)
Lt. Col. Alexander Learmonth was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician.Life
He was born at 4 Princes Street in Edinburgh, the eldest son of John Learmonth. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1847 before entering the Inner Temple to study law. He joined the Army and became a Colonel in the 17th Lancers.
On retiring from the Army he was elected Conservative MP for Colchester on 3 November 1877, sitting from 1870 to 1880.
In 1859 he married Charlotte Lyons, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-General Humphrey Lyons, who went on to have 7 children.
By 1878 his extravagant London lifestyle caused his bankruptcy and the lands he had inherited in Edinburgh from his father were sold to the builder James Steel.
