# Joseph Alpass > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Joseph_Alpass > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Joseph_Alpass.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alpass > Source revision: 1335085021 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British politician (1873–1969)}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} '''Joseph Herbert Alpass''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (2 February 1873 – 31 May 1969) was a British [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) politician. He was the chairman of one of meetings held during the Clarion Van visit to Stroud in July 1897 (where he is referred to as "Councillor Alpass")''Clarion'', 17 July 1897. p. 8 He is also recorded as speaking at a street corner meeting held by the Cheltenham Branch of the Independent Labour Party in July 1899 on the subject "Objections to Socialism Answered".''Cheltenham Chronicle'', 29 July 1899 pp2 Alpass was a County Councillor for Gloucestershire and later and Alderman (full dates are not known but he was a Councillor in the period before the Great War and was a member after the Great War) and is noted as an Alderman in 1934.''Cheltenham Chronicle'', 13 January 1934 p. 1 -- "Ex MP Bereaved" - report of death of his mother. The first record of his return at an ordinary election was when he was unopposed in 1907 for Berkeley where he succeeded the previous councillor WilliamLegge who had died.''Cheltenham Chronicle'', 2 March 1907. He was also returned unopposed in 1913 as the sitting councillor presumably elected in 1910''Gloucester Journal'', 1 March 1913. He was also contested the Thornbury Rural District Council election in 1904 for the Hinton Ward but did not get elected but was a member of Berkeley Parish Council. He had also been a supporter of Mr A T Price when he was nominated to stand for the County Council in 1904 but had lost to Mr Legge.''Western Daily Press'', 12 February 1904, p. 6 -- report of public meeting to nominate candidate. At the [1922 general election](/source/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election), Alpass was an unsuccessful candidate in the [Thornbury constituency](/source/Thornbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in Gloucestershire. He was beaten again at the [1924 general election](/source/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election) in [Cirencester and Tewkesbury](/source/Cirencester_and_Tewkesbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)), where the Conservative candidate won 72% of the votes. At the [next general election, in 1929](/source/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election), he was elected as [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (MP) for [Bristol Central](/source/Bristol_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)). He was defeated at the [1931 general election](/source/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election), and did not stand for [Parliament](/source/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom) again until the [1945 general election](/source/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election), when he was elected as MP for [Thornbury](/source/Thornbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)). He served only one term, until the constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the [1950 general election](/source/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election). == Family history == {{More citations needed section|date=December 2022}} He was born on 2 February 1873 at [Clifton, Bristol](/source/Clifton%2C_Bristol), but from the time of the 1881 census until at least 1920 he lived in Berkeley where his mother and father ran a grocer's shop in which he worked along with his brother and sister. After the [First World War](/source/First_World_War) he is recorded as an auctioneer living in Berkeley but also appears to have done business in the Thornbury area. He married Louisa Anne Taylor Neale, daughter of a Berkeley farmer, on 13 September 1905. He appears in a newspaper report of an Electoral Registration Court where the revising barrister removed his name from the list stating "It is one of the worst faggots that has come under my experience." This refers to registering for a vote using a loophole in the legislation. His evidence was a lease of the land to his father.''Gloucestershire Chronicle'', 22 September 1894. p. 5 == References == {{Reflist}} ==Sources== * {{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= 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 | mr-joseph-alpass | Joseph Alpass }} {{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Bristol Central](/source/Bristol_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1929](/source/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1931](/source/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election) | before = [Thomas Inskip](/source/Thomas_Inskip%2C_1st_Viscount_Caldecote) | after = [Lord Apsley](/source/Allen_Bathurst%2C_Lord_Apsley) }} {{s-bef | before = Sir [Sir Derrick Gunston, Bt.](/source/Sir_Derrick_Gunston%2C_1st_Baronet) }} {{s-ttl | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Thornbury](/source/Thornbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1945](/source/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1950](/source/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election) }} {{s-non | reason = Constituency abolished }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpass, Joseph Herbert}} Category:1873 births Category:1969 deaths Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:Place of birth missing Category:Place of death missing Category:UK MPs 1929–1931 Category:UK MPs 1945–1950 Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Joseph Alpass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alpass) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alpass?action=history)). 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