Sidney Augustus Dye, JP (4 August 1900[1] – 9 December 1958) was a British Labour Party politician.
Born at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, Sidney Dye was educated at Wells Elementary School but left at the age of thirteen to become an agricultural labourer.
[2] He contested South West Norfolk unsuccessfully in 1935, continuing as a farmer, purchasing his farm during World War II.
On the morning of Tuesday, 9 December 1958, Sidney Dye was killed in a head-on collision with another vehicle near his home in Swaffham.
On 18 December, an inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death, after hearing that the brakes on the MP's car, which was less than three years old, were "completely ineffective".