George Harold Newsom

George Harold Newsom (29 December 1909 – 14 February 1992) was a British Liberal Party politician and barrister.

Newsom, Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Alethea Mary Awdry.

He was educated at Marlborough College and Merton College, Oxford where he was awarded a 2nd Class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1931 and a 1st Class degree in Jurisprudence in 1932.

[1] He was selected at the last minute to be Liberal candidate for the Dorset West[4] It was a promising seat for the Liberal Party, with a Conservative majority of only 2,000 at the previous General Election in 1935.

However, then Labour had not contested the seat but in 1945 they intervened; He did not stand for parliament again.