Henry Cobden Haslam (4 October 1870 – 7 February 1948) was a

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medical researcher and

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politician. The son of Henry Haslam, a "member" or insurance underwriter of

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, he was born in the north London suburb of

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. He was educated at

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and in 1889 was admitted to

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. He took second class in the

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in 1892, and continued his medical training at

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in London. He was admitted to the

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in 1896 and received a Bch Cantab degree in 1897. In 1901 he left St Thomas', having been elected to a scholarship at the Department of Pathology at

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. He conducted research and published a number of papers in scientific journals. He received a

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from the university in 1914. He married Julie Henriette Dupont, daughter of Edward Dupont, director of the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle in Brussels, and they had two children. Haslam subsequently abandoned his medical career, becoming an underwriter at Lloyd's like his father. He also entered politics, and at the 1924 general election he was elected as

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(MP) for the safe Conservative seat of

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. He held the seat until he retired from the

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at the 1945 general election. He died at his Cambridge home in June 1948 aged 77, and was buried in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haslam, Henry Cobden 1870 births 1948 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge People educated at Dover College