John Edgar Harvey (4 April 1920 – 13 January 2008) was a British
Conservative Party politician.
Early life
Harvey was born in
Derry
Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name ''Derry'' is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name (modern Irish: ) meaning 'oak grove'. The ...
. He attended
Xavierian College
The Xaverian Brothers or Congregation of St. Francis Xavier are a Roman Catholic religious institute founded by Theodore James Ryken in Bruges, Belgium, in 1839 and named after Saint Francis Xavier. The institute is dedicated to education.
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in
Bruges and
Lyme Regis Grammar School. During the
Second World War, he served in the
Merchant Navy.
Parliamentary career
He was elected at the
1955 general election as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Walthamstow East
Walthamstow East was a parliamentary constituency in what was then the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow in east London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the fir ...
, retaining the seat with a majority of 1,129 over the sitting
Labour MP
Harry Wallace
Harry Wright Wallace (11 September 1885 – 30 April 1973) was a British Labour Party politician.
He was Assistant Secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers.
At the 1924 general election, he was unsuccessful Labour candidate at Bury in ...
. Harvey held his seat at the next two general elections, until his defeat at the
1966 election by Labour's
William Robinson.
After politics
After losing his seat in 1966, he left politics to concentrate on his business career. He was a director and deputy chairman of
Burmah Castrol Europe until his retirement. Harvey lived in
Loughton, and was a
verderer of
Epping Forest.
He was appointed
CBE in the
1994 Birthday Honours
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for political and public service.
Harvey should not be confused with
John Harvey-Jones, former chairman of
ICI who died in the same week.
References
UK General Elections since 1832*
Obituary ''The Independent'', 17 January 2008
Obituary in ''The Times'', 30 January 2008
External links
*
1920 births
2008 deaths
People from Loughton
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1955–1959
UK MPs 1959–1964
UK MPs 1964–1966
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Burmah-Castrol
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