Alexander Hector

Alexander Hector
File:Hector, Alexander.jpg
Born	1810
Died	1875
Residence	7 Stanley Gardens, W.
Occupation	business diplomacy
Society Membership membership ASL ordinary fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1871.01.03 resigned [1870 in A6:2] elected_ASL 1865.02.28

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House Notes

may possibly be Hecter
Huter in 14th list 1865.03.06

Notes From Elsewhere

Periodic visits were paid to Tehran by a Mr Alexander Hector, an English trader established in Baghdad"
British Consul in Baghdad
On 15 April 1858 Annie French married, in London, Alexander Hector (1810–1875), a man of enterprise and ability who had joined Richard Lemon Lander in his exploration of the River Niger (1832) and General Francis Rawdon Chesney in the exploration of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers (1835–7). He then settled in Baghdad, opened up trade between Great Britain and the Persian Gulf, and carried out excavations. In 1857 he returned to England, having accumulated a large fortune.

The Hectors lived in Stanley Gardens, Notting Hill, and had a country house at Worcester Park, Surrey. However, the marriage was not very happy, due mainly to Hector's domineering attitude. His health was not good and he was often irritable; he insisted that Annie should account to him regularly for every penny of household expenditure, and he sometimes humiliated her in front of their servants. She found it necessary to give more money to her elderly father, who lived in lodgings nearby, and this stimulated her to write—without her husband's knowledge—Look before you Leap in 1865 and Which shall it be? in 1866. Despite these earnings in secret, she went into debt and had to pawn her jewels. Rows became more frequent, and matters came to a head when Hector discovered that she had borrowed money from the captain of one of his ships. At about the same time he formed a liaison with a Mrs Trevelyan. Finally, in 1870, the Hectors became legally separated.