Albert James Sylvester CBE JP (24 November 1889 – 27 October 1989) served as Principal Private Secretary to British statesman David Lloyd George from 1923 until Lloyd George's death in March 1945.
Albert James Sylvester was born in Harlaston, Staffordshire, where his father was a farmer.
After Lloyd George's death, A. J. Sylvester earned his living as a member of Lord Beaverbrook's staff from 1945 until 1948, and spent a further year as unpaid assistant to the Liberal Party leader, Clement Davies.
In 1949, he retired from political life, and moved to a farm at Corsham, Wiltshire, England, where he served as JP.
His ambition to publish a full-scale autobiography, upon which he was actively engaged in extreme old age, never came to fruition.