Harold Smith (British politician)

Sir Harold Smith (18 April 1876 – 10 September 1924)[1] was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, perhaps better known for having been the brother of F. E. Smith than for his own comparatively modest parliamentary career.

[2] His victory over the sitting Liberal Party MP Arthur Crosfield was a narrow one, but at the post-war general election in December 1918, Smith received the coalition coupon and was re-elected with a large majority.

[4] At the 1922 general election, he did not stand again in Warrington, where he was succeeded as MP by another Conservative, Alec Cunningham-Reid who had been a flying ace in World War I. Smith stood instead in Liverpool Wavertree, a safe Conservative seat which returned him to the House of Commons with a large majority.

[3] However, at the December 1923 general election, he lost the seat with a massive swing to the Liberal Party candidate Hugh Rathbone.

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