Alfred Lafone

Alfred Lafone (13 February 1821 – 26 April 1911)[1] of Hanworth Park, Feltham, Middlesex, was a British leather merchant and Conservative Party politician in London.

[4] He was educated privately,[2] and moved to Bermondsey in London where he joined the leather and hide factors business of Boutcher, Mortimore and Company.

At the 1885 general election he unsuccessfully contested the new Bermondsey division of Southwark,[5] losing by only 83 votes (1.2% of the total) to the sitting Liberal MP Thorold Rogers.

[12] By 1892 he had become a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Middlesex,[13] but at the 1892 general election he lost his seat in Parliament to the Liberal Party candidate Reuben Barrow, on a swing of 7.9%.

[15] The sitting Liberal MP, Reuben Barrow, was supported by processions of workingmen,[15] but Lafone regained the seat with a majority of 360 votes (4.4% of the total).