Alexander Robertson (MP)

{{Short description|English politician}}

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Alexander Robertson (14 February 1779 – 17 December 1856){{Rayment-hc|g|2|date=March 2012}} was an English politician.

He was elected at the 1818 as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for the rotten borough of Grampound in Cornwall,{{cite book

|last=Stooks Smith

|first=Henry.

|editor=Craig, F. W. S.

|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig

|title=The Parliaments of England

|orig-date=1844-1850

|edition=2nd

|year=1973

|publisher=Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn=0-900178-13-2

|page=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/488 488]

}}

and was re-elected in 1820.

The borough was disenfranchised in 1821 for gross corruption, but its two MPs retained their seats until the dissolution of Parliament in 1826.