sentences:  Alexander was a staunch Tory in his politics and had spent the staggering sum of over £600,000 on acquiring estates in Ireland, including the parliamentary borough of Newtownards in County Down, and became a strenuous supporter of the Act of Union.Alexander entered the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Caledon, of Caledon, in the County of Tyrone on 6 June 1790 and was subsequently created Viscount Caledon on 23 November 1797 and finally Earl of Caledon on 29 December 1800, on the day that 18 Irish peerages were conferred on persons who already possessed a peerage of that kingdom.Lord Caledon died at his house in Rutland Square (now Parnell Square), Dublin on 22 March 1802 aged 72.