Alfred Percy Allsopp was an English businessman and Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician.

Allsopp was the sixth and youngest son of Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip

Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip

Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip , was a British businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament ....

 and Elizabeth Tongue. Several of his brothers were active in politics.

He was elected as the Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Taunton

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 at a by-election in April 1887, in the place of his oldest brother, Samuel

Samuel Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip

Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip , was a British businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1873 and 1887 when he inherited the peerage....

, who had succeeded to the peerage on the death of their father. He was re-elected in 1892

United Kingdom general election, 1892

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, and stood down from Parliament at the 1895 general election

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.

Allsopp was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant

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 of Staffordshire

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 in 1887. He was also a Justice of the Peace

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 (JP) in Worcestershire

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. He was Mayor of Worcester three times, including in 1894 and 1909.

Alfred entered the family business Samuel Allsopp & Sons

Samuel Allsopp & Sons

Samuel Allsopp & Sons was one of the largest brewery companies operating in Burton upon Trent, England.Allsopp’s origins go back to the 1740s, when Benjamin Wilson, an innkeeper-brewer of Burton, brewed beer for his own premises and sold some to other innkeepers...

, as a junior partner from 1883 to 1887. He later became chairman of the company, and oversaw its conversion into a Limited Company

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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 Birmingham

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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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