17 Facts About Cecil Harmsworth

1.

Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth LLD, was a British businessman and Liberal politician.

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2.

Cecil Harmsworth served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1915 and as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1919 and 1922.

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3.

Cecil Harmsworth was the younger brother of newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, and Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, and the elder brother of Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet, and Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet.

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4.

Cecil Harmsworth was the Liberal candidate in the 1901 by-election for the North East Lanarkshire constituency, but lost to the Liberal Unionist candidate.

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5.

Cecil Harmsworth was elected to the House of Commons for Droitwich in 1906, a seat he held until he was defeated at the January 1910 general election.

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6.

Cecil Harmsworth re-entered the House of Commons as the representative for Luton in a 1911 by-election, and continued to sit for the constituency until 1922.

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7.

Cecil Harmsworth served briefly as Acting Minister of Blockade in 1919.

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8.

Cecil Harmsworth became a regular contributor in the House of Lords, making his last speech in June 1945.

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9.

Apart from his political career Cecil Harmsworth was a director of Amalgamated Press and chairman of Associated Newspapers, founded by his brother Lord Northcliffe.

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10.

Cecil Harmsworth published Pleasure and Problem in South Africa, Immortals at First Hand and A Little Fishing Book.

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11.

Cecil Harmsworth purchased Dr Johnson's House and restored it into a museum open to the public.

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12.

Cecil Harmsworth was an active member of the Sylvan Debating Club, which was founded by his father, and served as its treasurer.

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13.

Cecil Harmsworth's diaries include social meetings with influential people including suffragists like Agnes Harben and her husband.

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14.

Lord Cecil Harmsworth married his cousin Emilie Alberta, daughter of William Hamilton Maffett, in 1897.

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15.

Cecil Harmsworth's wife was born in 1873 and died in 1942.

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16.

Lord Cecil Harmsworth survived her by six years and died in August 1948, aged 78.

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17.

Cecil Harmsworth was succeeded in the barony by his eldest surviving son, Cecil.

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