Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet

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Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet PC (September 19, 1858 –June 4, 1939) was an English journalist and Liberal politician.

Norman 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 created a Baronet, of Honeyhanger in the Parish of Shottermill in the County of Surrey, in 1915 and in 1918 he was admitted to the Privy Council. Apart from his journalistic and political careers he was also a pioneer in wireless telegraphy.

Norman was married twice: to Ménie Muriel Dowie in 1891 (divorced 1903)—their son, Henry Nigel St Valery Norman, was born in 1897—and to Hon. Florence Priscilla McLaren in 1907.

[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.
• 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 Thomas Barclay	Member of Parliament for Blackburn (with Phillip Snowden 1910–1918 Percy Thompson Dean 1918–1922 Sydney Herbert Holcroft Henn 1922–1923 December 1910–1923	Succeeded by Sir Sydney Herbert Holcroft Henn John Duckworth
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Baronet (of Honeyhanger) 1915–1939	Succeeded by Henry Nigel St Valery Norman