Joseph Herbert Alpass was a British Labour Party politician.
Background
He was born on 2 February 1873 at Clifton in the City of Bristol, but from the time of the 1881 census until at least 1920 he live in Berkeley where his mother and father ran a grocer"s shop in which he worked along with his brother and sister. After the First World War he is recorded as an Auctioneer living in Berkeley but also appears to have done business in the Thornbury area. He married Louisa Anne Taylor Neale, daughter of a Berkeley farmer on 13 September 1905.
Career
At the 1922 general election, Alpass was an unsuccessful candidate in the Thornbury constituency in Gloucestershire. He was defeated at the 1931 general election, and did not stand for Parliament again until the 1945 general election, when he was elected as Member of Parliament for Thornbury. He served only one term, until the constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1950 general election.
Membership
35th United Kingdom Parliament. 38th United Kingdom Parliament]
At the next general election, in 1929, he was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Bristol Central.