George Harvey

Who was George Harvey?

Sir George Harvey was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the Kennington division of Lambeth from 1924 to 1929, and from 1931 until his death.

Harvey won the Kennington seat at the 1924 general election, defeating the sitting Labour MP T. S. B. Williams. He was unseated at the 1929 general election by the Labour candidate Leonard Matters, an Australian journalist, but ousted Matters in 1931 with a majority of 28.6% of the votes. He was re-elected in 1935, and held the seat until his death in 1939, aged 68.

He was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours, 1936, for "political and public services".