Harry Pursey was a British politician and naval officer, who began his career as a boy seaman and served as a Member of Parliament for twenty-five years.
11 Facts About Harry Pursey
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Harry Pursey was born in Sidmouth, and educated at the Royal Hospital School and the Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
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Harry Pursey joined the Royal Navy in 1907, as a boy seaman with HMS Impregnable.
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Harry Pursey was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander in February 1928, and transferred to Vernon in April.
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Harry Pursey married first in 1921, then secondly in 1944 and was granted a decree nisi of divorce in 1956.
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Harry Pursey married again in September 1954, in New Jersey, to Baroness Huszar, a Hungarian.
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Harry Pursey later won a lawsuit against her solicitor, who had argued that although he had conducted her defence without entering Canada, he was a licensed Canadian solicitor as well as an English one and thus not required to comply with English regulations.
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Harry Pursey's wife was again arrested in 1955, this time for the possession of narcotics; she was convicted, and they were divorced in 1959.
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Harry Pursey was elected as the Labour member of parliament for Kingston upon Hull East in the 1945 general election.
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Harry Pursey announced in 1967 that he would resign at the next election, and was succeeded by John Prescott in the 1970 election.
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Harry Pursey had a great interest in "below-decks" naval history, and spent his later years working on a history of the Invergordon Mutiny, though it does not appear to have been published.