Alexander Daniell (12 December 1599 â 12 April 1668) was the sole proprietor of the Manor of Alverton, Cornwall from 1630 until his death in 1668.
He was born in Middelburg in Walcheren, the son of Richard Daniel, clothier and citizen of London, and on coming to Cornwall in 1632, lived in rented accommodation until 1639, when a new house was built at Larigan, between Penzance and Newlyn. His notebook gives his income and expenditure (actual years not stated in The Cornishman article). In the first year his income is ã43 and expenditure ã156; the following year his income was ã206 and he spends ã246; and in the third year income was ã181 and expenditure ã219. It appears that excess of expenditure over income was the norm. He was interested in the history of the manor and made copies of rent-rolls preserving information on the parishes of Madron, St Buryan, and St Levan as well as Alverton. One of Daniell's manuscripts, known as the Rawlinson MSS, class C No 789 is preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
He died at his residence on 12 April 1668 and is buried at Madron. The following is inscribed on his tomb:âÂÂ
Belgia me Birth, Britain me Breeding gave,<br> Cornwall a wife, ten children, and a grave.
Daniel's tomb, along with members of his family, is in the churchyard at Madron.