Alfred Percy Allsopp (26 August 1861 – 22 February 1929) was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. Allsopp was the sixth and youngest son of Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip and Elizabeth Tongue. Several of his brothers were active in politics. He was elected as the

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(MP) for

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at a by-election in April 1887, in the place of his oldest brother, Samuel, who had succeeded to the peerage on the death of their father. He was re-elected in

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, and stood down from Parliament at the 1895 general election. Allsopp was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire in 1887. He was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) in

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. He was Mayor of Worcester three times (1892, 1894 and 1909). Alfred entered the family business Samuel Allsopp & Sons, as a junior partner from 1883 to 1887. He later became chairman of the company, and oversaw its conversion into a

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, and retired from the business in 1900 and then sold all his shares in the company. He was also a director of the New Grand Hotel in

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, of the Yolandi Mining Corporation Limited, and of Allsopp and Partners. 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.

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* 1861 births 1929 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies councillors in Worcestershire English businesspeople mayors of places in Worcestershire UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 younger sons of barons {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub