Sir Harry Cartmell (18 March 1857 – 11 May 1923) was an English
solicitor
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who served as
Mayor of Preston, from 1913 to 1919, during the whole period of the
First World War
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. He was the author of ''For Remembrance'', published in 1919, which was a memoir of his experiences in Preston during the war.
Cartmell was born in
Manchester
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and admitted a solicitor in 1893, and was also a
justice of the peace for Lancashire and chairman of Preston Education Committee. He was
knighted
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in the 1920 New Year Honours for his services to Preston, especially as mayor throughout the First World War and to education in the borough.
Footnotes
References
*Obituary, ''
The Times
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'', 14 May 1923
1857 births
1923 deaths
English solicitors
Mayors of Preston, Lancashire
Knights Bachelor
Lawyers from Manchester
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