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Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet
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Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet

English journalist and politician (1858–1939)

Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet (19 September 1858 – 4 June 1939) was an English journalist and Liberal Member of Parliament and government minister. Norman was educated privately in France and at Harvard University, where he obtained his B.A. For several years he worked on the editorial staff of the Pall Mall Gazette and later joined the editorial staff of the Daily Chronicle, being appointed Assistant Editor of the latter in 1895.2

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Born Sep 19, 1858, died Jun 4, 1939.1

About

He retired from journalism in 1899. During this time he travelled widely in Canada and the United States and in Russia, Japan, China, Siam, Malaya and Central Asia. Much of the material included in the two volumes mentioned in the description was amassed during these tours. He was knighted in 1906, and made a baronet in 1915.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedGrove House School3
  • Date not recordedHarvard University3

Norman was born in Leicester, the son of Henry Norman, a merchant and local radical politician. Norman was educated at Leicester Collegiate School and Grove House School and later studied theology and philosophy at Leipzig and Harvard University. His family were Unitarians in religion, and Norman first embarked on a career as a preacher, but he gave up this calling and his religion upon returning to England.

In 1891 he married author Ménie Muriel Dowie (1867–1945) but they divorced in 1903 on the grounds of her adultery with a family friend, Edward Arthur Fitzgerald. Norman was awarded custody of their son Henry Nigel St Valery Norman, who was born in 1897 and succeeded him in the baronetcy.

In 1907 he married Florence Priscilla McLaren (1884–1964), the daughter of the wealthy industrialist and Liberal MP, Sir Charles McLaren. They had three children.

In 1922 he purchased Ramster Hall, Chiddingfold, Guildford, Surrey with Lady Norman.

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Career

Occupation: journalist, politician, businessperson, author, writer.6

  • 1922 to 1923Member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom5
  • 1918 to 1922Member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom5
  • 1910 to 1918Member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom5
  • 1906 to 1910Member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom5
  • 1900 to 1906Member of the 27th Parliament of the United Kingdom5
  • Date not recordedFounded Norlow4

Personal life

  • BornSep 19, 1858, Leicester7
  • CitizenshipUnited Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland8
  • SpousesMénie Muriel Dowie 1891 to 19039; Florence Norman married 19079

Politics

Norman was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South from 1900 to 1910, and for Blackburn from 1910 to 1923. He was an advocate for a number of causes, notably women's suffrage.

Norman was a supporter of David Lloyd George, organising the Budget League in support of his People's Budget in 1909–10, personally representing Lloyd George in France on a number of occasions during the First World War, and helping organise the government's campaign during the "Coupon Election" of 1918.

In 1915 he was created a baronet, and took the designation "of Honeyhanger in the Parish of Shottermill in the County of Surrey".

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