{{Short description|British soldier and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Sir | name = Harry Mackeson | honorific_suffix = 1st Baronet | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | office = Secretary for Overseas Trade | term_start = 28 May 1952 | term_end = 3 September 1953 | prime_minister = Winston Churchill | predecessor = Henry Hopkinson | successor = Derick Heathcoat-Amory | office1 = Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons | term_start1 = 26 October 1951 | term_end1 = 28 May 1952 | alongside1 = Herbert Butcher | prime_minister1 = Winston Churchill | predecessor1 = Robert Taylor | successor1 = Edward Heath<br>Herbert Butcher | office2 = Opposition Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons | term_start2 = 18 March 1950 | term_end2 = 26 October 1951 | alongside2 = Cedric Drewe | leader2 = Winston Churchill | predecessor2 = Cedric Drewe | successor2 = Robert Taylor | office6 = Member of Parliament<br />for Folkestone and Hythe<br /><small>Hythe (1945–1950)</small> | term_start6 = 5 July 1945 | term_end6 = 8 October 1959 | predecessor6 = Rupert Brabner | successor6 = Albert Costain | birth_name = Harry Ripley Mackeson | birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|05|25|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|01|25|1905|05|25|df=yes}} | death_place = | party = Conservative | other_party = | height = | spouse = Alethea Chetwynd-Talbot | relations = | children = | parents = Henry Mackeson & Ella Ripley | relatives = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = }} '''Sir Harry Ripley Mackeson, 1st Baronet''' (25 May 1905 – 25 January 1964) was a British soldier and Conservative politician.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1964-01-27 |title=Sir Harry Mackeson Dies |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/27/sir-harry-mackeson-dies.html |access-date=2023-04-22 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Early life== Mackeson was the son of Henry Mackeson and Ella Cecil Ripley. He served in the Royal Scots Greys regiment of the British Army and achieved the rank of Brigadier.
==Political career== In 1945 he was elected to the House of Commons for Hythe, a seat he held until 1950 when the constituency was abolished, and then represented Folkestone and Hythe until 1959.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Alexandrou |first1=Haralambos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyVJDAAAQBAJ |title=Great Power Politics in Cyprus: Foreign Interventions and Domestic Perceptions |last2=Kontos |first2=Michalis |last3=Panayiotides |first3=Nikos |date=2014-06-30 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-6325-4 |pages=29 |language=en}}</ref>
Mackeson served under Winston Churchill as a Lord of the Treasury from 1951 to 1952 and as Secretary for Overseas Trade from 1952 to 1953. In 1954 he was created a Baronet, of Hythe in the County of Kent.
==Personal life== Mackeson married Alethea Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot, daughter of Reginald George Chetwynd-Talbot, in 1940.
He died in January 1964, aged 58, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Rupert.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zo0eAQAAMAAJ |title=The Illustrated London News |date=1964 |publisher=Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited |volume=244 |pages=171 |language=en}}</ref>
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==References== *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed|date=February 2013}}
==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | brigadier-sir-harry-mackeson | Sir Harry Mackeson }}
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