Sir Harry Greer (18 September 1876 – 20 March 1947) was a British businessman and Conservative politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Clapham in a by-election in 1918. However, in the general election of that year he contested, and won, the constituency of

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. He held the seat until the next election in 1922. He was

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in the 1922 New Years Honours List. He later became chairman of the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops, an organisation set up to create employment for wounded ex-servicemen and named after

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. In the 1930s, he joined the board of the

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company, and soon became its chairman. In 1934 his speech to shareholders was delivered by television from Crystal Palace to a meeting in Film House, Wardour Street, London, seven miles away.Obituary, ''The Times'', 21 March 1947; Robert Charles Alexander, The Inventor of Stereo: The Life and Works of Alan Dower Blumlein, Focal Press (2000), page 144. Until his death he was chairman of the Scottish Machine Tool Corporation. He married in 1906 and had three daughters.

References

* * Obituary, The Times, 21 March 1947

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Greer, Harry 1876 births 1947 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 Knights Bachelor