He was the chairman of one of meetings held during the Clarion Van visit to Stroud in July 1897 (where he is referred to as "Councillor Alpass")[1] He is also recorded as speaking at a street corner meeting held by the Cheltenham Branch of the Independent Labour Party in July 1899 on the subject "Objections to Socialism Answered".
[3] The first record of his return at an ordinary election was when he was unopposed in 1907 for Berkeley where he succeeded the previous councillor WilliamLegge who had died.
He was born on 2 February 1873 at Clifton, Bristol, but from the time of the 1881 census until at least 1920 he lived in Berkeley where his mother and father ran a grocer's shop in which he worked along with his brother and sister.
After the First World War he is recorded as an auctioneer living in Berkeley but also appears to have done business in the Thornbury area.
He appears in a newspaper report of an Electoral Registration Court where the revising barrister removed his name from the list stating "It is one of the worst faggots that has come under my experience."