Brighton was a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until it was divided into single-member seats from the 1950 United Kingdom general election. Covering the seaside towns of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, it elected two Members of Parliament (MP) by the block vote system of election.

Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. After a decade in local government, he sat in the House of Commons from 1922 to 1944.