Alfred Rhodes Bristow

{{Short description|British politician}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Kidderminster

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|term_start = 30 April 1859

|term_end = 27 May 1862

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|predecessor = Robert Lowe

|successor = Luke white

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|birth_date = 20 December 1819

|birth_place = Greenwich, Kent

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1875|04|05|1816}}

|death_place = Sydenham, Kent

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|nationality = British

|party = Liberal

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Alfred Rhodes Bristow (20 December 1819 – 5 April 1875){{Rayment-hc|k|1|date=July 2017|accessdate=14 May 2018}} was a British Liberal politician.{{cite book |title=The parliamentary history of the county of Worcester : including the city of Worcester, and the boroughs of Bewdley, Droitwich, Dudley, Evesham, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove and Pershore, from the earliest times to the present day, 1213-1897, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members |last=Williams |first=William Retlaw |year=1897 |publisher=Privately published for the author |location=Hereford |pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentaryhi00willgoog/page/n200 185]–190 |url=https://archive.org/details/parliamentaryhi00willgoog |access-date=9 July 2010}}

He was the son of Government contractor Isaac Bristow and educated at King's College, London. He became a solicitor in 1842 and was head of the firm of Bristow and Tarrant.{{cite book|title=Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H|url=https://archive.org/details/modernenglishbio55059gut|first=Frederic|last=Boase|publisher=Project Gutenberg }}

Bristow was elected Liberal MP for Kidderminster at the 1859 general election and held the seat until 1862, when he resigned, becoming Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}} in order to take up a Crown office as Solicitor to the Admiralty.

He died at Sydenham railway station.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}