Sir Alfred Bird, 1st Baronet

Sir Alfred Frederick Bird, 1st Baronet (27 July 1849 – 7 February 1922)[1] was an English chemist, food manufacturer and Conservative Party politician.

In 1878 he took full control of the company following the death of his father, and began an ambitious programme of modernisation and expansion.

[1] He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours for his services to the reorganisation of Overseas Officers' Clubs and to discharged servicemen and old age pensioners[5][6] and created a baronet, of Solihull in the County of Warwick, in the 1922 New Year Honours for his patronage of art and for donating paintings to the Houses of Parliament.

Alfred Frederick Bird died on 7 February 1922, aged 72, shortly after being run over by a motorist in Piccadilly, London.

Alfred Frederick Bird is interred in a large family vault within the grounds of Robin Hood Cemetery, Streetsbrook Road, Shirley, Solihull.