1975
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
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SIR HARWOOD HARRISON (Conservative) Eye
(Chairman of Defence and External Affairs Sub-Committee)
HARRISON, Sir (James) Harwood, created 1st Baronet of Bugbrooke 1961; Territorial Efficiency Decoration (2 bars) 1947; MA; MP(C) Eye Division of Suffolk since 1951; born 6 June 1907 eldest son of the late Rev E W Harrison MA, Bugbrooke, Northampton; married 1932 Peggy Alberta Mary, daughter of the late Lieutenant Colonel V D Stenhouse, TD JP. Minehead; one son, one daughter. Educated: Northampton Grammar School; Trinity College Oxford. Honours degree (Jurisprudence) 1928; MA 1946. Member Ipswich County Borough Council, 1935-46; Chairman Mental Hospital, 1938. Commissioned 4th Battalion The Suffolk Regiment TA 1935; Captain 1939; Major 1940; captured (Singapore) 1942; on Burma Railway, 1943; Lieutenant Colonel commanding 4th Suffolks 1947; Brevet-Colonel 1951; Territorial Army Reserve of Officers 1951-65. Military Member Suffolk Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association 1951 - . Contested Eye Division of Suffolk 1950; elected 1951. Presented and sponsored Private Member's Bills. The Road Transport Lighting (rear lights) Act 1953; The Road Traffic Act 1964. Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr Harold Macmillan, Minister of Housing and Local Government 1953-54; Assistant Whip 1954-56; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1956-59; Comptroller of HM Household, 1959-61. President of National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Eastern Area 1963-66 (Chairman 1956-59; Vice Chairman 1953-56); Chairman Unionist Club 1966-; President Ipswich and District Far East POW Fellowship 1953. Chairman Cap Estate (St Lucia) Ltd; Director of Chalwyns Ltd and other companies. Has lectured extensively in America, Europe and Africa. Patron, Lord of Manor and Land-Owner at Bugbrooke. Former Vice Chairman, Conservative Trade and Industry Committee. Recreations: sailing, skiing. Heir:s Michael James Harwood Harrison (b. 28 March 1936; m 1967, Rosamund Louise d. of Edward Clive, Bishops Waltham; 2d) Address Little Manor, Hasketon, Woodbridge, Suffolk; Tel: Woodbridge 242; 17 Tufton Court, Tufton Street, SW1; Tel: 01-799 6619. Clubs: Carlton, Crockfords, Pratts;
House of Commons Yacht (Commodore, 1969-70).
SIR FREDERIC BENNETT (Conservative) Torbay
BENNETT, Sir Frederic (Mackarness), Knighted 1964; MP(C) for Torquay! Torbay since 1955; Reading North 1951-55. b. Dec 1918; 2nd son of the late Sir Ernest Bennett and of Lady (Marguerite) Bennett; m in 1945 to Marion
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