User:Vernon39/Frederick Leverton Harris

Frederick Leverton Harris (1864 -1926), known as Frank Harris and F. Leverton Harris, was a businessman and a Conservative politician and MP.

Early life and Education
He was born on 17 December 1864, son of Frederick William Harris and Elizabeth Rachel (born Wylie), his wife. His parents were Quakers. He parted company from the Religious Society of Friends in 1914 or '15, having a different attitudes to the Great War

He was educated at Winchester College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, taking his degree in 1884.

Business and marriage
He became a partner in the firm of Harris and Dixon, coal factors and ship owners in 1885.

He also held directorships in the National Discount Company and the Metropolitan Electrical Supply Company.

On 30 September 1886, he married Gertrude Richardson (born 1865). They had no children. During the war, she was maligned for continuing to visit an alien internee, son of a family friend.

Elections
He was a London County Council member for Stepney from 1907 to 1910.

At the 1900 General Election, he was elected as a Conservative candidate to a seat at the Tynemouth Constituency and lost the seat at the 1906 General Election. At the bye-election in the Stepney constituency in 1907, he won the seat, loosing it at the 1910 General Election. He was elected unopposed at the bye-election in East Worcestershire in 1914. He retired from Parliament in November 1918.

Parliamentary posts
He served in the Government as Parliamentary secretary to the Blockade Ministry from 22 November 1916 to 10 January 1919. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1916. He was a Member of Tariff Commission in 1904

Awards
Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)

Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy)

Death
He died 14 November 1926.