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Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank

Captain Henry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, PC (27 May 1893 - 17 October 1961), known as Harry Crookshank, was a British Conservative politician.

Crookshank was born in Cairo and educated at Eton College and Oxford University. In World War I he served in the Grenadier Guards. He then worked in the British Embassy in Washington DC until 1924.

Crookshank was Conservative MP for Gainsborough, 1924-56. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office, 1934-5; Parliamentary Secretary, Mines, 1935-9; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1939-43; Postmaster General, 1943-5; Minister of Health, 1951-2; Lord Privy Seal, 1952-5; Leader of the House of Commons, 1951-5. He was raised to the peerage as the Viscount Crookshank in 1956, a title which became extinct upon his death.


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Iain Macleod

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