Alexander Faulkner Shand FBA (20 May 1858 – 6 January 1936) was an English writer and barrister.

[3] Shand is said to have been briefly engaged to Irish author Constance Lloyd, who went on to marry Oscar Wilde.

In Charles & Camilla, Gyles Brandreth describes Shand as: a man who wanted to push boundaries, both intellectually and in terms of his personal conduct.

[2] Of Shand's best known work, The Foundations of Character, Brandreth writes that its central theme was "the balance between instinct, sentiment and emotion on one hand and the pressures of society on the other.

"[2] The Times described the book - first published in 1914 - as doing much "to create a science of character", and as "a valuable contribution to philosophical literature".