Sir Alfred Dyer JP (9 February 1865 – 15 November 1947) was a British newspaper editor, politician, and company director.

Career

In the 1890s, Dyer was the editor of the ''Gravesend & Northfleet Standard''.Newspaper Clipping
Alfred Dyer and Kate Elizabeth Havill From 1902 to 1940, he was the editor of the ''

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''. Following this, he was the chief executive officer of P. J. Parsons, Ltd, proprietors of the ''Hastings & St Leonards Observer''. From 1921 to July 1946, Dyer served as chairman of the Hastings Conservative Association. Upon his retirement, the association thanked him for "untiring and loyal work for the party". When the Rosemount Bowling Club was formed in 1921,

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, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle and MP for Hastings, was invited to become its President and Dyer its Vice-President. When Percy left the constituency in 1937, Dyer became the Club's second President, which he retained until his death in 1947.

Death and legacy

In the

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, Dyer was made a Knight Bachelor for "political and public services in Hastings". Dyer remains the only editor of a Sussex newspaper upon whom a knighthood has ever been bestowed. Sir Alfred Dyer died on Saturday 15 November 1947 in the Buchanan Hospital in

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. The Mayor of Hastings, Alderman F. W. Chambers, said it was fitting that they should recognise "the great loss the Bench, the town, and the country had suffered."

Personal life

On 2 September 1895 in Heavitree, England, Dyer married Edith Kate Havill, with whom he had two children.

References

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