Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
Captain Henry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank,
CH PC (
27 May,
1893 –
17 October,
1961), known as
Harry Crookshank, was a British
Conservative politician.
Crookshank was born in
Cairo and educated at
Eton College and
Oxford University. In
World War I he served in the
Grenadier Guards and was badly wounded, leaving him unable to father children. He then worked in the British Embassy in
Washington, D.C. until 1924.
Crookshank was Conservative MP for
Gainsborough, 1924-56. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary,
Home Office, 1934-5; Parliamentary Secretary, Mines, 1935-9;
Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1939-43;
Postmaster General, 1943-5; Minister of Health, 1951-2; Lord Privy Seal, 1952-5; Leader of the
House of Commons, 1951-5. He was raised to the peerage as the
Viscount Crookshank in 1956, a title which became extinct upon his death.
