Sir George Harvey (20 November 1868 – 27 March 1939) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the member of parliament (MP) for the Kennington division of

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from 1924 to 1929, and from 1931 until his death. Harvey was born in Throxenby,

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, the son of John Harvey, a Staff Sergeant in the Yorkshire Militia from

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, Ireland, and Fanny Humphrey Harvey. George came to London as a young boy to seek his fortune, spending his first night in Kennington. Harvey won the Kennington seat at the 1924 general election, defeating the sitting Labour MP T. S. B. Williams. He was unseated at the 1929 general election by the Labour candidate Leonard Matters, an Australian journalist, but ousted Matters in

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with a majority of 28.6% of the votes. He was re-elected in

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, and held the seat until 1939, when he died suddenly in West Kingston, near Angmering-on-Sea, aged 70. He was

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ed in the King's

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for "political and public services". Sir George Harvey was elected chairman of the Royal Infant Orphanage on 12 October 1937. He succeeded John Wilson Hope CBE who had been chairman of the RIO since 1917. In 1894, he married Sarah Kenward, and had a son and a daughter. Their son, Captain Percival George Arthur Harvey, contested

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as a Conservative Party candidate at the by-election in May 1936.

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* 1868 births 1939 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 Politics of the London Borough of Lambeth Knights Bachelor British people of Irish descent People from Angmering {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub