Henry Graham (parliamentary clerk)

Sir Henry John Lowndes Graham, KCB (15 January 1842 – 5 December 1930) was a Scottish public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments from 1885 to 1917.

[1] Graham was born on 15 January 1842, the only son of William Graham of Burntsheilds, Renfrewshire, and his wife Anna, née Lowndes; his sisters included Lady Barrington (wife of Sir Eric Barrington) and his half-brother was the Glasgow MP William Graham, whose own children included Dame Agnes Jekyll, Frances Horner (wife of Sir John Horner), and the wives of Quintin Hogg and Lord Muir Mackenzie.

In that capacity, he attended two coronations and witnessed the rejection of the People's Budget by the House of Lords and the subsequent passage of the Parliament Act 1911.

[2] Graham was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1895.

He was promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) of the Order in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902,[3][4] and invested as such by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902.