Constituency : Lancaster 1900-18
Norval recaptured Lancaster from the Tories' William Foster by 44 votes. The campaign was notably civilised; the two men would lunch together if canvassing in the same area..Norval admitted to a meeting of farmers that he was "not conversant with matters relating to agriculture".
Norval was the son of a local cloth manufacturer. He was educated at Lancaster Grammar School. By the time of his election he was the senior partner in the company. He served on Lancaster City Council and was Mayor of Lancaster from 1896 to 1897. He was chair of the local Liberal Association and President of the Chamber of Commerce. He was a Methodist.
Norval had a particular interest in education.
Norval was knighted in 1912.
Norval was a supporter of female suffrage. His sister-in-law was a prominent moderate suffragist and he made his home available for meetings of the Lancaster Suffragist Society.
In 1917 Norval protested at the conscription of a number of men from his firm as they were working on an urgent order of cloth from the Aircraft Department.
Norval did not receive the coupon in 1918 and was decisively beaten by the Coalition Conservative.
Norval was a local benefactor to his church and local hospitals.
He died in 1932 aged 82.
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