Alexander Somerville (15 March 1811 – 17 June 1885) was a British Radical journalist and soldier.
[1] Somerville had joined the Royal Scots Greys regiment of the British Army in December 1831.
In May 1832, during the disturbances caused by the Reform Bill, Somerville wrote to a newspaper claiming that the army would protect property but would not stop citizens exercising their rights and would not support a military government.
[1] Richard Cobden persuaded Somerville to join the Anti-Corn Law League in August 1842.
He recorded what he found and Friedrich Engels quoted him in his The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845).