Alexander Brogden was born in Rochford in 1954. He was trained at the Middlesex Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art specialising in silverwork and jewellery and in 1986 was awarded the B. Yehia Memorial Prize for Outstanding Metalwork at the Royal College of Art. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, Leicester Polytechnic and Camberwell College of Art.

His major commissions include a rose-water bowl for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1993), a pair of processional tapers for Lichfield Cathedral (1991), bowls for Bulgari Creazione Inc. (1991), a fluted dish for the Goldsmiths' Company Modern Plate Collection (1990) and centrepieces for David Battie and Sir Anthony Jacobs (1988).

As well as receiving the B. Yehia Memorial Prize, Alexander Brogden has received the Platinum Award for Jewellery Design and received a Royal Society of Arts travel bursary to Egypt. In 1990 he was elected to the Crafts Council Selected Index. Alexander Brogden has also exhibited in London and the Far East.