Henry George Strauss, 1st Baron Conesford KC (24 June 1892 – 28 August 1974) was a British lawyer and a Conservative politician.
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Strauss was the son of Alphonse Henry Strauss, of London. He was educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1919.[1]
Strauss sat as Member of Parliament for Norwich between 1935 and 1945,[1][2] for the Combined English Universities between 1946 and 1950[1][3] and for Norwich South between 1950 and 1955.[1][2] He was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Attorney General, Sir Donald Somervell, between 1936 and 1942 and a government member as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works between March and December 1942 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning between 1942 and 1945,[1] when he resigned from the government in protest at Churchill's treatment of Poland at the Yalta agreement.[4] He was once again a government member as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade under Churchill between 1951 to 1955.[1] The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Conesford, of Chelsea in the County of London.[5]
Lord Conesford became a King's Counsel in 1946 and a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1969.[1] He was also a member of the governors of Norwich High School for Girls and a vice-president of the Girls' Day School Trust.[6] He was well known for his speeches in which he complained about the improper usages of the English language, especially in the United States as can be seen in this Time Magazine article from 1957.[7]
Lord Conesford married Anne Sadelbia Mary, daughter of John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols, in 1927. He died in August 1974, aged 82, when the barony became extinct.[1]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by George Albert Hartland Geoffrey Shakespeare |
Member of Parliament for Norwich 1935–1945 With: Geoffrey Shakespeare |
Succeeded by John Paton Lady Noel-Buxton |
| Preceded by Eleanor Rathbone Kenneth Lindsay |
Member of Parliament for Combined English Universities 1946–1950 With: Kenneth Lindsay |
Constituency abolished |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Norwich South 1950–1955 |
Succeeded by Geoffrey Rippon |
| Preceded by George Hicks |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works 1942 |
Office renamed |
| New title | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning 1942–1945 |
Succeeded by Arthur Jenkins |
| Preceded by Hervey Rhodes |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade 1951–1955 |
Succeeded by Donald Kaberry |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Conesford 1955–1974 |
extinct |