Alexander Charles Ewald (1842–1891) was an English civil servant, known as a historical writer.
He was born at Jerusalem, the son of Christian Ferdinand Ewald (1802–1874), who from a Jewish family became a Christian convert working for the London Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Jews.
He was educated abroad and was appointed to a clerkship in the Public Record Office in 1861, rising to be senior clerk by 1890.
[1] While at the Public Record Office, Ewald was mainly responsible for the completion of the work begun by Thomas Duffus Hardy in 1835: a full calendar and précis of the Norman Rolls-Henry V. It was printed in vols.
of the Deputy-keeper's Reports (1880 and 1881), and supplemented by a glossary prepared by Ewald.