Alfred Law Explained

Sir Alfred Law
Office:Member of Parliament
for High Peak
Term Start:30 May 1929
Term End:18 January 1939
Predecessor:Samuel Hill-Wood
Successor:Hugh Molson
Office1:Member of Parliament
for Rochdale
Term Start1:14 December 1918
Term End1:15 November 1922
Party:Conservative
Predecessor1:Gordon Harvey
Successor1:Stanley Burgess
Birth Date:1860 5, df=yes
Birth Place:West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England
Death Place:Littleborough, Lancashire, England

Sir Alfred Joseph Law (31 May 1860 – 18 July 1939) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Born in West Bromwich, he was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Rochdale constituency in Lancashire, but was defeated at the 1922 general election.

He was returned to the House of Commons at the 1929 general election for the High Peak constituency in Derbyshire, and held the seat until his death in Littleborough 1939, aged 79.

In 1921 Law donated the trophy for a rugby league match between Oldham and Rochdale. It was originally known as the Infirmaries Cup and later renamed as the Law Cup.[1]

Sir Alfred was the owner of the poet Robert Burns's First Commonplace Book 1783–1785 manuscript volume that he had inherited from William Law of Honresfield, Lancashire, his uncle.[2] The poet's second commonplace book, the Edinburgh Journal is held by the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, South Ayrshire.

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  1. Web site: Memories are made of this.... Oldham R.L.F.C.. 4 January 2018. 20 January 2018.
  2. Book: Ewing, James. 1938. Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783–1785. Gowans and Gray. viii.