Lt. Col. Alexander Learmonth (1829 - 10 March 1887)[1] was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician.
Born at 4 Princes Street in Edinburgh, the eldest son of John Learmonth,[2] Alexander Learmonth was educated at University College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1847 before entering the Inner Temple to study law.
[3] On retiring from the Army he was elected Conservative MP for Colchester on 3 November 1870,[4] sitting from 1870 to 1880.
[citation needed] By 1887, his extravagant London lifestyle caused his bankruptcy and the lands he had inherited in Edinburgh from his father were sold to the builder James Steel.
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