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Algernon Parker

Salesman, Hotelier & Town Councillor

Keith Tankard
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Updated: 14 October 2009
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Very little is known about Algernon Parker other than that he was a commercial traveller and at one stage proprietor of the Commercial Hotel at East London.

He was elected for Ward 1 in December 1911 but resigned in July 1912. He returned to the Council in 1923 and served until 1927.

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