663 Henry Strutt

Constituency : Derbyshire  East  1868-74; Berwick-upon-Tweed 1880

Henry  took  the  second  seat  at  Derbyshire  East.

Henry  was  the  son  and  heir  of  Baron  Belper  who  had  been  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of Lancaster  in  Aberdeen's  ministry. The   Strutt  family  business  was  cotton. He  was  educated  at Harrow  and  Cambridge  and  was  a  keen  cricketer.

Henry  was  defeated  in  1874.

Henry  had  to  relinquish  his  seat  in  1880  when  he  succeeded  to  the  baronage.  In  1886  he  joined  the  Liberal  Unionists. Salisbury   made  him  Captain  of  the  Honourable  Corps  of  Gentlemen-at-Arms  in  1895  and  he held  it  until  1905.  he  was  also  an  aide-de-camp  to  all  three  monarchs  between  1894  and  1914.

He  died  in  1914  aged  74.