Alfred Hopkinson

Sir Alfred Hopkinson (28 June 1851 – 11 November 1939)[1] was an English lawyer, academic and politician who was a member of parliament (MP) for two three-year periods, separated by nearly 30 years.

[2] He was unsuccessful again as a Liberal Unionist candidate at the 1892 general election, when he stood in Manchester South-West.

[4] He resigned from Parliament in February 1898, by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901.

[1] He returned to Parliament in March 1926, when he won a by-election for the Combined English Universities as a Conservative.