This short obituary appeared in the Baptist Union Handbook for 1958
ALEXANDER, ERNEST KENNARD, was born in Newport, Mon., on December 26th, 1886. He attended Charles Street Baptist Church. In 1911 he entered Harley College to train as a missionary. In 1915 he went, under the auspices of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union, to the Belgian Congo, where he served for ten years. He developed a large Mission Station with a church of three hundred native Christians at Ikau, Upper Congo. He was a gifted linguist, engineer and teacher. In 1919 he married Miss Florence Gertrude Clarke, a trained nursing sister, who joined him in Africa, but the death of their daughter and illness of their son forced them to return. In 1926 he became Pastor of Higham's Park Baptist Church, and in 1928 moved to Childs Hill Baptist Church where he remained until his retirement in March, 1953. He passed his final examinations for the Baptist ministry in March, 1934, and was enrolled in the Ministerial List of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland. During his ministry he was President of the Hampstead Free Church Council, President of the Western Group of the London Baptist Association and President of the North Western Group of the London Baptist Association. He was a chaplain at Golders Green Crematorium for over 25 years and Non-conformist representative in the Hendon Rotary Club for a similar period. He passed away on the 11th June, 1957, survived by his wife and son. — F.H.A. (Frederick H Alexander, Alexander's son)
