{{Short description|British politician}} {{for|the English cricketer|Alfred Law (cricketer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Sir Alfred Law |honorific_suffix = |image = George Harvey & A.J. Law of Great Britain to Int. Union, (10-2-25) LCCN2016840855.jpg |alt = |caption = Law (right) with George Harvey in 1925. |office = Member of Parliament <br />for High Peak |parliament = |majority = |term_start = 30 May 1929 |term_end = 18 January 1939 |predecessor = Samuel Hill-Wood |successor = Hugh Molson |office1 = Member of Parliament <br />for Rochdale |parliament1 = |majority1 = |term_start1 = 14 December 1918 |term_end1 = 15 November 1922 |party = Conservative |predecessor1 = Gordon Harvey |successor1 = Stanley Burgess |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1860|5|31}} |birth_place = West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1939|7|18|1860|5|31}} |death_place = Littleborough, Lancashire, England |resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> }} '''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://roughyeds.co.uk/2018/01/memories-are-made-of-this/|title=Memories are made of this...|publisher=Oldham R.L.F.C.|date=4 January 2018|access-date=20 January 2018}}</ref>
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.<ref name="ED">{{Cite book|last=Ewing|first=James|year=1938|title=Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783–1785|publisher=Gowans and Gray|page=viii}}</ref> The poet's second commonplace book, the ''Edinburgh Journal'' is held by the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, South Ayrshire.
== References == {{reflist}} * {{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 |orig-year=1969 |edition= 3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X}} *{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | sir-alfred-law | Sir Alfred Law }}
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