Personal Life
He married Valerie Ann Winn in 1966. They had a son and a daughter. He separated from his first wife in 1979 and they were divorced in 1985. He remarried in 1987, to Pat Hanson.
Alexander died at Beaumond House Community Hospice, Newark-on-Trent, after a short battle with cancer.
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