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Daniel Asher Alexander (6 May 1768 – 2 March 1846) was a British architect and engineer, born in London. ==Life== Daniel Asher Alexander was educated at St Paul's School, London, and admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1782.〔 His first major work was the improvement of the medieval bridge at Rochester. The bridge was widened and the two central arches merged into one to provide a wider channel for shipping.〔 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Medieval Bridge )〕 The work was not completed until 1824, by which time Alexander had been dismissed from his post as engineer to the bridge.〔(Rochester Bridge Trust )〕 He was the principal architect of Dartmoor Prison and Maidstone Prison, two of the oldest gaols still in use in the United Kingdom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maidstone Prison )〕 In 1799 he carried out a detailed survey of Rochester Cathedral, and recommended a programme of repairs, which was begun in 1801. Alexander was the surveyor to the London Dock Company between 1796 and 1831 and was responsible all the buildings at the London Docks during that time, including the Pennington Street Warehouses and the London Dock House (the dock basins themselves were by the company's engineers, including John Rennie). In his capacity as surveyor to the Trinity House he built a number of lighthouses,〔 including the High Lighthouse at Harwich (1818),〔 Retrieved 24 May 2010〕 and others at Holyhead, Farne Island, and Lundy Island, the latter built on older foundations in 1819.〔 Retrieved 24 May 2010〕 Other works include Mote House near Maidstone, built in the 1790s for the 1st Earl of Romney;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Walk Maidstone - Mote Park )〕 repairs to Coley House near Reading and extensions to Inigo Jones' Queen's House (then the Royal Naval Asylum) in Greenwich, London.〔 In later life he lived at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and at Exeter, where he died.〔 〕 His pupils included James Savage, John Whichcord Snr and William Hurst Ashpitel.〔http://oxforddnb.com/view/printable/329〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Asher Alexander」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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