Alfred Todd (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlfred Todd (politician)
British politician
Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1890
Date of Death: 27-Aug-1970
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Alfred Todd (politician)
- Alfred John Kennett Todd (13 April 1890 – 27 August 1970) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1929 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed. In May 1935, Todd resigned the whip of the National Government, along with Frederick Wolfe Astbury, Joseph Nall, Linton Thorp and Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, as they claimed that some aspects of government policy were too close to socialism, and were unhappy with government policy on India.
- However, Todd continued to identify with the Conservative Party, and took the whip again in September, to show support for the Government during the Abyssinia Crisis.Todd lost his seat in a narrow defeat at the 1935 general election by the Liberal candidate Sir Hugh Seely.
- He did not stand for Parliament again.His grandson Mark Todd is a Labour Party politician, elected in 1997 as MP for South Derbyshire.
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