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 MiddelburgOxford Index Reference Entry Daniell, Alexander (1599–1668), diaristThe 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. 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. 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.
He died at his residence on 12 April 1668 and is buried at Madron. The following is inscribed on his tomb:–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.
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