Alfred William Perkin

Alfred William Perkin (born 1 May 1863 - 6 May 1934) was a chemical manufacturer and local politician.

The eldest son of Thomas Dix Perkin and Harriett née Leavesley. His father was a chemical manufacturer and partner in the very profitable dyestuff company Perkin & Sons and lived in Greenford Green, Middlesex. His younger brother, Sir William Henry Perkin, invented 'mauveine' a purple chemical dye.

At the age of twenty-one he became a member of Brentford Rural Sanitary Authority representing Greenford. When his father died in 1891, he succeeded him as chairman of that body. In 1894 Greenford Urban District Council and Perkin became a member, eventually becoming chairman. He was also a member of Brentford Board of Guardians.

In 1904 he was elected to Middlesex County Council to represent Hanwell Division, which included Greenford. In 1915 he was made a County Alderman, retiring from the county council at the March 1934 elections.

A member of the Conservative Party, it was announced in October 1917 that he would be the party's candidate at the Harrow Division of Middlesex at the next general election. He was eventually passed over for Oswald Mosley who won the seat at 1918 General Election.

He was High Sheriff of Middlesex for 1922.

He was Chairman of the Agricultural Section of the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce, President of Middlesex Agricultural and Fat Stock Shows, Chairman of the Middlesex Committee for the Encouragement of Light Horse Breeding, a member of the Middlesex Territorial Army Association, Chairman of the Governors of Southall County School and a justice of the peace.

He fell ill in December 1933 and died at Greenford Green in May of the following year, aged 71.