Alexander Carte MD, FRCSI, MRIA (11 August 1805 – 25 September 1881) was an Irish zoologist and palaeontologist and was first director Natural History Museum, Dublin.
Carte began his education at Mr O'Brien's Academy, Limerick, then entering the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1823.
[1] Carte married Ellen Dickson circa 1829, living at 14 Northbrook Road, Leeson Park, Dublin, with whom he had no children.
[3] Carte systematically overhauled the museum's collections, cataloguing, naming and allocating all exhibits into organised groups.
[4] During his time as director, Carte oversaw the construction of a purpose-built museum building for the Society's expanding collections, which opened in 1857.