Sunday, 2 July 2017
1606 Cecil Harmsworth
Constituency : Droitwich 1906-10, Luton 1911-22
Cecil took Droitwich after the Liberal Unionist Richard Martin, stepped down.
Cecil was the younger brother of the newspaper proprietor Alfred Harmsworth. He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin. He first stood for Droitwich in 1900 ,losing by 268 votes, then at the North East Lanarkshire by-election in 1901. He was joint editor of the New Liberal Review.
Cecil was defeated in January 1910. He returned the following year at a by-election in Luton.
Cecil was parliamentary private secretary to Walter Runciman from 1911 to 1915 . He was briefly under secretary at the Home Office in 1915 but was dropped when the coalition government was formed.
In 1912 Cecil bought Dr Johnson's house in London to save it from demolition and set it up as a museum.
When Lloyd George's government was formed, Cecil became part of the Secretariat. He was under secretary of state for Foreign Affairs from 1919 to 1922. His Diaries are a major historical source for the period.
Cecil stood down in 1922.
Cecil was created Baron Harmworth in 1939.
Cecil was a director of Amalgamated Press and chairman of Associated Newspapers. He published a handful of books on assorted subjects.
He died in 1948 aged 78.
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