Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury

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Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury CBE (born January 31, 1906 - † April 5, 1994 in St. Martin's Port, Guernsey ) was a British economic manager , Air Commodore and politician of the Conservative Party , who was a member of the House for nearly 26 years of Commons and since 1971 when Life Peer was a member of the House of Lords on the basis of the Life Peerages Act 1958 and thus was a member of the UK Parliament for almost fifty years .

Life

Air Force Officer and Member of the House of Commons

After attending Framlingham College in Suffolk , Harvey joined the Royal Air Force in 1925 and did his military service there until 1930. After he was director of the Far East Aviation Company Ltd and the Far East Flying Training School Ltd in Hong Kong from 1930 to 1935, and between 1932 and 1935 in the honorary rank of major general advisor to the air forces in southern China, he became commodore of a squadron of the Royal Auxiliary in 1937 Air Force (RAAF). After the beginning of the Second World War , he became a commodore of the No. 615 Squadron of the RAF and commanded it, among other things, in combat missions in France . During this time he was promoted to Colonel ( Group Captain ) in 1942 and at the same time appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire , before he was promoted to Brigadier General ( Air Commodore ) in 1944 .

In the first general election after the Second World War on July 5, 1945 , Harvey was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Tories for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Macclesfield for almost 26 years until April 30, 1971 .

Economic manager and member of the House of Lords

In addition to his membership of parliament, he was also active in various companies in the private sector , for example between 1951 and 1957 as deputy chairman of the board of Handley Page Aircraft Company and then from 1957 to 1974 chairman of the board of Ciba-Geigy in Great Britain.

Most recently, Harvey, who was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1957 and has since had the suffix "Sir", was chairman of the so-called 1922 Committee , the parliamentary association of backbenchers of the Conservative Party , between 1966 and 1970 .

Immediately after his resignation from the House of Commons, Harvey was raised to the nobility by a letters patent from May 1, 1971 as a life peer with the title Baron Harvey of Prestbury , of Prestbury in the County Palatine of Chester, and thus a member of the House of Lords. When he died in April 1994, he had been a member of the British Parliament for almost fifty years.

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SURNAME Harvey, Arthur Vere, Baron Harvey of Prestbury
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harvey, Sir Arthur Vere
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1906
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1994
Place of death St. Martin's Port, Guernsey