Horace Alexander:  Gandhi’s interpreter

Andrew Clark looks at a new book on the Quaker pacifist

by Andrew Clark 13th May 2011

Horace Alexander was in the first of two cohorts of weighty Friends who, as peace emissaries, moved us through the twentieth century. The first was spearheaded by Carl Heath, Horace Alexander, Corder Catchpool and Agatha Harrison – the list is not exhaustive. Then came those whom we have lost more recently, Duncan Wood, Sydney Bailey, Adam Curle, Wolf Mendl and Walter Martin. His life and work are the subject of a new book by Geoffrey Carnall.