Sir Alfred Dyer JP (9 February 1865 – 15 November 1947) was a British journalist, chief executive, and Conservative Party politician.

The Observer became the mouthpiece of the Progressive League and Dyer lost no opportunity of urging upon the Hastings Borough Council and readers of the day his wish for bolder policies in the town's affairs.

[2] The efforts of the Progressive League succeeded in spite of apathy and opposition, and though the First World War held up the realisation of many good schemes, Dyer and his fellow crusaders had the satisfaction between the wars of seeing a greatly improved and modernised Hastings taking its rightful place in the forefront of British holiday and residential resorts.

Dyer was one of the founders of the Ex-Service Men's Club formed immediately after the First World War, and for some time was its honorary secretary.

He was for many years chairman of the Hastings Masonic Hall Company and was an honorary member of the St. Michael's, Andredesweald and St. Richard Lodges, P. Z. of the Emulation Chapter No.

[2] Sir Alfred Dyer died on 15 November 1947 in the Buchanan Hospital in St Leonards-on-Sea, survived by his son and daughter.

[2] Tribute was paid by the Mayor of Hastings, Alderman F. W. Chambers, who said it was fitting that they should recognise the great loss the Bench, the town, and the country had suffered.

Chambers relayed from his own experience that Dyer had brought to his task on the bench a mind always balanced, always cool in judgement, always fair, always impartial.

Many of the members had been associated with him in a professional capacity for a number of years, and all those who knew him admired his high integrity as a journalist, and had learned to regard him with affection and esteem.