Henry Norman

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Sir Henry Norman, Bt (September 19, 1858 –June 4, 1939) was an English journalist and Liberal politician.

He was born at Leicester and studied theology and philosophy at Leipzig and Harvard University. He then became a journalist and travelled extensively in the East, where he took a number of photographs that are held at Cambridge University. He was on the staff of the Daily Chronicle from 1892, becoming assistant editor.

Norman was Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South from 1900 to 1910, and for Blackburn from 1910 to 1923. He was also a pioneer in wireless telegraphy.

He was married twice: to Menie Muriel Dowie in 1891 (divorced 1903), and to Hon. Florence Priscilla McLaren in 1907. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1918, and gained the title of 1st Baronet Norman.

[edit] Selected writings

• The Peoples and Politics of the Far East (1895)
• Round the Near East

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Lloyd Gibbons	Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South 1900–January 1910	Succeeded by Thomas Edgcumbe Hickman
Preceded by Phillip Snowden and Thomas Barclay	Member of Parliament for Blackburn (with Phillip Snowden, Percy Thompson Dean and then Sydney Herbert Holcroft Henn) December 1910–1923	Succeeded by Sir Sydney Herbert Holcroft Henn and John Duckworth