George Alexander (lacrosse)

George Percival Alexander was a British lacrosse player who won a silver medal with the Great Britain team at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Born in Eccles, England, on 23 February 1886, he was the son of a wealthy Scottish-born varnish manufacturer and worked as a salesman for the family company. He played lacrosse for his home-town club, Eccles, won representative honours with Lancashire and the North of England, and was a full England international. In 1909 he was in the first Eccles team to reach the final of the Northern Senior Flags, scoring in the opening minute before South Manchester won 11 to 4. His brother James was in the same side and was a reserve for Great Britain at the London Olympics. Alexander died in Wilmslow, England, on 14 November 1929. Wikipedia notes that he was long confused with a different man, Gustav Bernhard Franck Alexander.