{{Short description|British politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} ''' Sir Henry Percy Harris''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|KBE}} (8 September 1856 - 23 August 1941) was a British Conservative Party politician who served first on the London County Council, and then as a Member of Parliament.
Henry Percy Harris was born on 8 September 1856, the son of Sir George David Harris, a member of the London County Council from its creation in January 1889.<ref>{{cite book|title=Who was Who 1897 – 1915|year=2014|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing, London|isbn=9781408193358}}</ref> Henry Harris was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford University, before qualifying as a barrister in 1881.<ref name=Who/>
Like his father, Henry Harris served on the London County Council, he representing Paddington from 1892 to 1910. He was deputy chairman of the Council between 1898–1899 and chairman between 1907 and 1908. He was among the Council group allied to the Conservative Party, first known as the Moderate Party then, from 1906, the Municipal Reform Party. From 1904 he led the group and later became chairman of the related London Municipal Society.<ref name=Who>{{cite book|title=Who Was Who 1941-1950|year=2014|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing, London|isbn=9781408154960}}</ref>
Harris was elected as Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Paddington South<ref>{{cite news|title=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages|work=Constituencies beginning with "P"|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm|accessdate=25 April 2017|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231171753/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm|archive-date=31 December 2010}}</ref> at the general elections of January and December 1910.<ref>{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918|year=1974|publisher=Macmillan, London|isbn=9780333169032}}</ref> In the 1918 general election he stood as a Conservative supporter of David Lloyd George's coalition Government and was re-elected unopposed. He then retired from Parliament and did not contest the 1922 general election.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
In 1917 he was appointed a Knight Commander (KBE) of the Order of the British Empire for his services as Chairman of the London War Pensions Committee.<ref>{{cite news|title=London Gazette, 24 August 1917|url= https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30250/supplement/8795|accessdate=24 October 2017}}</ref>
He died on 23 August 1941 at the age of 84.<ref name=Who/>
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== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs|sir-henry-harris|Henry Percy Harris}} * {{cite news|title=Sir Henry Percy Harris, painted by William Orpen, Guildhall Art Gallery|url=http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-henry-percy-harris-18561941-politician-51798|accessdate=24 October 2017}}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Paddington South | years = Jan 1910–1922 | before = George Fardell | after = Douglas King }} {{s-end}}
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