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[1][2] in Walcheren, the son of Richard Daniel, clothier and citizen of London,[3] 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.
[4] His notebook gives his income and expenditure (actual years not stated in The Cornishman article).
One of Daniell's manuscripts, known as the Rawlinson MSS, class C No 789 is preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
The following is inscribed on his tomb:–[7] Belgia me Birth, Britain me Breeding gave, Cornwall a wife, ten children, and a grave.