Sir Harold Sutcliffe (11 December 1897 – 20 January 1958) was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman.
During the First World War, in which he was badly gassed, he served in the Royal Field Artillery and in 1925 was called to the Bar at Inner Temple.
He was regularly financially supported by Yorkshire businesses sympathetic to the Conservative Party including - in July 1947 - members of the medical and legal fraternity such as Leeds solicitors Middleton & Sons as well as councillors and auditors in Barnsley and Hebden Bridge.
Another supporter, Sir George Martin, Lord Mayor of Leeds (1946-47) was, like Sutcliffe, a member of the Conservative Party.
[2] Described by The Times as 'never a very conspicuous figure at Westminster' and 'a persuasive rather than a demonstrative speaker', Sutcliffe became Parliamentary Private Secretary to William Mabane in 1939, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to Osbert Peake first at the Home Office in 1942, then the Treasury and finally, after the 1951 general election, at the Ministry of National Insurance.