{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} '''Alfred John Pechey''' (1840 – 5 June 1882) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born at Soham in Cambridgeshire to the Reverend William Pechey, a Baptist minister, and Sarah Rotton. He migrated to Australia around 1865 and worked as a surveyor near Bathurst. On 12 April 1865 he married Anthonina Jane Rotton, the daughter of Henry Rotton.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15999407 |title=Obituary Mrs A J Pechey |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=22 April 1922 |accessdate=4 September 2020 |page=14 |via=Trove}}</ref>
In 1882 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Macquarie at the January by-election,<ref>{{Cite NSW election |title=January 1882 East Macquarie by-election |year=1880 |district=MacquarieEast_2 |accessdate=4 September 2020}}</ref> but he died at Bathurst four months later,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70970063 |title=Fatal accident to Mr Pechey, MP |newspaper=Australian Town and Country Journal |date=10 June 1882 |accessdate=4 September 2020 |page=11 |via=Trove}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13513503 |title=Obituary Mr A J Pechey, MLA |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=15 June 1882 |accessdate=4 September 2020 |page=9 |via=Trove}}</ref> without taking his seat.<ref name=nsw>{{Cite NSW Parliament |id=764 |name=Mr Alfred John Pechey (1840-1882) |former=Yes |access-date=22 June 2020}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|au-nsw-la}} {{s-bef|before=Edmund Webb}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for East Macquarie | years=1882 | alongside=Edward Combes}} {{s-aft|after=Sydney Smith}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pechey, Alfred}} Category:1840 births Category:1882 deaths Category:Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Category:19th-century Australian politicians Category:British emigrants to colonial Australia