1. Sir Harry Ernest Brittain, KBE, CMG was a British journalist and Conservative politician.
18 Facts About Harry Brittain
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Harry Brittain became an assistant to Sir William Ingram, managing director of the Illustrated London News.
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Harry Brittain subsequently worked for Sir Arthur Pearson, founder of the Daily Express.
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Harry Brittain resigned the chairmanship in 1918, because of his parliamentary duties, and became its senior vice-president, and the only Pilgrim Emeritus.
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Harry Brittain was a member of the original Committee of Sulgrave Manor Board, which was set up in 1914 to commemorate 100 years of peace between Great Britain and the United States.
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Harry Brittain was an honorary life member of the American Club, and the Society of Americans in London.
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American officers started to come to London, and Harry Brittain took on the task of organising an Officers' Club.
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In May 1918 Harry Brittain conducted a US delegation, including a number of labour leaders, to the battlefields of France.
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Harry Brittain was an honorary life member of the CPU, attended many of its Quinquennial Conferences, regularly attended all its Council Meetings and Conferences, and in 1959 personally inaugurated its 50th Annual Conference.
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Harry Brittain was an Honorary Member of the Foreign Press Association, the Association of American Correspondents in London and the Institute of Journalists.
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Harry Brittain won the seat and held it until 1929, when an increase in the industrial working population of the constituency and a swing against the incumbent Conservative government saw him defeated by James Shillaker of the Labour Party.
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Harry Brittain is best remembered for steering the Protection of Birds Act 1925 through parliament.
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Harry Brittain was created KBE in 1918 for services in the First World War, and a CMG in 1924.
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Harry Brittain was honoured by several continental countries for his international services.
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Harry Brittain visited 90 countries, crossed the Atlantic by sea more than 70 times and had been entertained in all 50 states of the US.
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In 1905, Harry Brittain married Alida Luisa, daughter of Sir Robert Harvey, by whom he had a son and daughter.
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Harry Brittain died on 9 July 1974 in Westminster, London, at the age of 100.
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Harry Brittain was the author of many publications including From Verdun to the Somme, which went through five editions in six days.