When Capt. Alexander Dobree Young-Herries was born on 1 January 1892, in Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Lt. Col. William Dobree Young-Herries D.L., J.P., was 25 and his mother, Bethia Marion Fayrer, was 24. He lived in St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He died on 23 July 1916, in Somme, Picardie, France, at the age of 24, and was buried in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
From the Latin form of the Greek name Alexandros, from alexein ‘to defend’ + anēr ‘man, warrior’ (genitive andros). The name became extremely popular in the post-classical period, and was borne by several individuals in the New Testament and some early Christian saints. Its use as a common given name throughout Europe, however, derives largely from the fame of Alexander the Great , King of Macedon ( 356–323 bc ), around whom a large body of popular legend grew up in late antiquity, much of which came to be embodied in the medieval ‘Alexander romances’.
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