Alfred Rhodes Bristow

Alfred Rhodes Bristow
Member of Parliament
for Kidderminster
In office
30 April 1859 – 27 May 1862
Preceded byRobert Lowe
Succeeded byLuke white
Personal details
Born20 December 1819
Greenwich, Kent
Died5 April 1875(1875-04-05) (aged 58–59)
Sydenham, Kent
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal

Alfred Rhodes Bristow (20 December 1819 – 5 April 1875)[1] was a British Liberal politician.[2]

He was the son of Government contractor Isaac Bristow and educated at King's College, London. He became a solicitor in 1842 and was head of the firm of Bristow and Tarrant.[3]

Bristow was elected Liberal MP for Kidderminster at the 1859 general election and held the seat until 1862, when he resigned, becoming Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds[4] in order to take up a Crown office as Solicitor to the Admiralty.[3]

He died at Sydenham railway station.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
  2. ^ Williams, William Retlaw (1897). The parliamentary history of the county of Worcester : including the city of Worcester, and the boroughs of Bewdley, Droitwich, Dudley, Evesham, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove and Pershore, from the earliest times to the present day, 1213-1897, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members. Hereford: Privately published for the author. pp. 185–190. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  3. ^ a b Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H. Project Gutenberg.
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.