{{short description|British medical researcher and politician}} {{For|British football player who competed in the 1900 Olympic Games|Henry Haslam (footballer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}
'''Henry Cobden Haslam''' (4 October 1870 – 7 February 1948) was a British medical researcher and Conservative Party politician.<ref name=venn>{{cite book |last=Venn |first=John |authorlink=John Venn |title=Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, 1349–1897 |url=https://archive.org/stream/biographicalhist02vennuoft#page/506/mode/2up |volume=2 |year=1898 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=507}}</ref><ref name="whowho">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U226557 |title=HASLAM, Henry Cobden |date=December 2007 |work=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=29 October 2011}}</ref>
The son of Henry Haslam, a "member" or insurance underwriter of Lloyd's of London, he was born in the north London suburb of Hampstead.<ref name="oconnor" /> He was educated at Dover College and in 1889 was admitted to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.<ref name="whowho" /><ref name="oconnor" /> He took second class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1892,<ref name=venn /> and continued his medical training at St Thomas' Hospital in London.<ref name="oconnor" /> He was admitted to the membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1896 and received a Bch Cantab degree in 1897.<ref name="whowho" /><ref name="oconnor">{{cite book |last=O'Connor |first=W J |title=British physiologists 1885–1914: a biographical dictionary |year=1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrToAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA70 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-3282-0 |page=70}}</ref>
In 1901 he left St Thomas', having been elected to a scholarship at the Department of Pathology at Cambridge University.<ref name="oconnor" /> He conducted research and published a number of papers in scientific journals.<ref name="whowho" /><ref name="oconnor" /> He received a DSc 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.<ref name="whowho" />
Haslam subsequently abandoned his medical career, becoming an underwriter at Lloyd's like his father.<ref name="oconnor" /> He also entered politics, and at the 1924 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the safe Conservative seat of Horncastle in Lincolnshire. He held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1945 general election.
He died at his Cambridge home in June 1948 aged 77, and was buried in Horncastle.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |date=9 February 1948 |work=The Times |page=1}}</ref>
==References== * {{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink=F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |orig-date=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=0-900178-06-X}} * {{Rayment|date=February 2012}} {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-henry-haslam | Henry Haslam }}
{{S-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Horncastle | years = 1924–1945 | before = Samuel Pattinson | after = John Maitland }} {{S-end}}
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