Alexander Daniell

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Alexander Daniell (12 December 1599 – 12 April 1668) was the sole proprietor of the Manor of Alverton, Cornwall from 1630 until his death in 1668.

He was born in Middelburg[https://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/7112#fullTextLinks Oxford Index Reference Entry Daniell, Alexander (1599–1668), diarist][http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/daniel-richard-1561-1630 The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010] in Walcheren, the son of Richard Daniel, clothier and citizen of London,Royal Institution of Cornwall, Charles Henderson Calendar 2, p. 24. His family was from Belgian descent: "sold to Justo Collimore all my inheritance due out of my Grand Mother Van Megens' estate of land and goods in Brabant for £157." and on coming to Cornwall in 1632, lived in rented accommodation until 1639, when a new house was built at Larigan, between Penzance and Newlyn.{{cite book|last1=Pool|first1=Peter A S|title=The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance|date=1974|publisher=Corporation of Penzance|location=Penzance}} His notebook gives his income and expenditure (actual years not stated in The Cornishman article). In the first year his income is £43 and expenditure £156; the following year his income was £206 and he spends £246; and in the third year income was £181 and expenditure £219. It appears that excess of expenditure over income was the norm.{{cite news|title=Conversazione at Laregan|work=The Cornishman|issue=175|date=17 November 1881|page=6}} He was interested in the history of the manor and made copies of rent-rolls preserving information on the parishes of Madron, St Buryan, and St Levan as well as Alverton. One of Daniell's manuscripts, known as the Rawlinson MSS, class C No 789 is preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.{{cite news|title=Antiquarian. Documents relating to the Manor of Alverton and the Borough of Penzance|work=The Cornishman|issue=27|date=16 January 1879|page=3}}

He died at his residence on 12 April 1668 and is buried at Madron. The following is inscribed on his tomb:–[https://books.google.com/books?id=wqdJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130 The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Volume 96, Part 1]

Belgia me Birth, Britain me Breeding gave,

Cornwall a wife, ten children, and a grave.We know the names of three sons: Alexander, Richard and Elias, cf. Henderson Calendar 2, p. 24.

Daniel's tomb, along with members of his family, is in the churchyard at Madron.{{sfnp|Historic England|1137116|ps=}}