Harold Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray

(Weetman) Harold Miller Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray DL (18 April 1882 – 5 October 1933),[1] styled The Honourable Harold Pearson between 1910 and 1927, was a British peer Liberal Party politician.

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Background

Cowdray was the son of Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, and Annie, daughter of Sir John Cass.[2]

Political career

Cowdray was elected as Member of Parliament for Eye at a by-election April 1906, [3] and held the seat until the 1918 general election, which he did not contest.[4] In 1927 he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and entered the House of Lords. He was also a major in the Sussex Yeomanry and a Deputy Lieutenant of that county.[2]

Family

Lord Cowdray married Agnes Beryl, daughter of Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, in 1905. They had one son and five daughters. He died in October 1933, aged 51, and was succeeded by his only son, Weetman. Lady Cowdray died in February 1948, aged 66.[2]

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)
  2. ^ a b c thepeerage.com
  3. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 391. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Francis Seymour Stevenson		 Member of Parliament for Eye
1906 – 1918		 Succeeded by
Alexander Lyle-Samuel
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Weetman Dickinson Pearson		 Viscount Cowdray
1927–1933		 Succeeded by
Weetman John Churchill Pearson