Alfred Tobin

Sir Alfred Aspinall Tobin (26 December 1855 – 30 November 1939)[1] was a British lawyer and judge who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Preston between 1910 and 1915.

Alfred Tobin was educated at Rugby School, where he took prizes in Greek or Latin, and then at University College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in law and history.

His most prominent cases were in a series of major lawsuits following the 1907 Kingston earthquake, where he was leading counsel for a group of insurers, and as the defence barrister in the 1910 trial of Dr.

[2] He was appointed as Recorder of Salford in 1904,[3] where he was noted as a conscientious judge, particularly when dealing with young offenders and inexperienced barristers.

[4] He was appointed a Judge of the County Courts for Herefordshire and Shropshire in 1915, causing his resignation from Parliament and a subsequent by-election in Preston.