| 词条 | Alexander Raphael |
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Alexander Raphael (died 1850) was the first British-Armenian to serve in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.[1] He was returned as a Liberal MP from the Irish constituency of County Carlow, at a by-election in June 1835. However the election was challenged on petition and he was unseated on 19 August 1835. Raphael succeeded in entering the House of Commons as a Catholic Tory from St Albans in 1847 and retained the seat until his death. Prior to serving in Parliament, he had been Sheriff of London for 1834, where he lost the tip of his left index finger in a fight with a criminal.[2] His father was Edward Raphael who was one of the founders of the Carniac Bank in Madras, India, which opened its doors in 1788. His legacy is St Raphael's Church in Surbiton, London, which he financed and had built as a family chapel. Completed in 1848, only two years before his death, it was later opened to the public as a Roman Catholic church by his nephew, Edward.[3] References1. ^{{cite book|last=Seth|first=Mesrovb Jacob|title=Armenians in India: From the Earliest Times to the Present|location=Calcutta|year=1937|page=595|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BlreO8bmK30C&lpg=PA595&dq=Alexander%20Raphael%2C%20first%20%20Armenian&pg=PA595#v=onepage}} 2. ^David Marshall Lang.Armenia: Cradle of Civilization. George Allen and Unwin Publishers. British {{ISBN|0-04-956008-5}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.straphael.org.uk/our_church.htm|title=Saint Raphael - Our Church|publisher=Official website|accessdate=29 January 2015}}
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