Alfred Paget Hedges

Alfred Paget Hedges (30 December 1867 – 17 April 1929), was a British Liberal Party politician and cigarette manufacturer.

[2] He succeeded his father in his tobacco business in 1885 and immediately became the sole proprietor.

[1] He was Liberal MP for the Tunbridge Division of Kent from 1906 to 1910.

[3] On 18 February 1908, he instituted a debate on local taxation, and after extensive lobbying for the readjustment of taxes in the winter of 1908–9, he still voted against the government over rating reform in February 1909.

[4] He was defeated by the Conservatives at the following general election in January 1910;[3] He served as a Justice of the Peace in Kent.