Alfred Percy Allsopp | |
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![]() Allsopp in 1895 | |
Born | 26 August 1861 |
Died | 22 February 1929 |
Occupation | Businessman |
Alfred Percy Allsopp (26 August 1861 – 22 February 1929)[1] was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician.
Allsopp was the sixth and youngest son of Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip[2] and Elizabeth Tongue.[3] Several of his brothers were active in politics.
He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton at a by-election in April 1887,[4] in the place of his oldest brother, Samuel, who had succeeded to the peerage on the death of their father.[5] He was re-elected in 1892,[6] and stood down from Parliament at the 1895 general election.[7]
Allsopp was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire in 1887.[8] He was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) in Worcestershire. He was Mayor of Worcester three times (1892, 1894 and 1909).[2][1]
Alfred entered the family business Samuel Allsopp & Sons, as a junior partner from 1883 to 1887.[9] He later became chairman of the company, and oversaw its conversion into a Limited Company, and retired from the business in 1900[2] and then sold all his shares in the company. He was also a director of the New Grand Hotel in Birmingham, of the Yolandi Mining Corporation Limited, and of Allsopp and Partners.[9]
He was made bankrupt in June 1914, after losses at Allsopp and Partners forced him to resort to moneylenders, and discharged from bankruptcy in 1920.[9]