Major Sir Samuel Emile Harvey DL (7 December 1885 – 9 November 1959[1]) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Harvey was born in Cornwall to Sir Robert Harvey,[2] a Cornish businessman who had struck it rich in the nitrate business in Chile, and Robert's wife Alida Marie Godefroy, a Franco-Peruvian lady whom Robert had married while working in Iquique during the time of the War of the Pacific and the transfer of that area from Peruvian to Chilean control.
The Dragoon Guards arrived in to France in November 1914, and soon mounted a cavalry charge, one of the few in that war.
[5] It was announced in the 1935 New Year Honours list that Harvey was to be knighted, "for political and public services".
[1] A memorial service for him was held in Totnes Parish Church on 16 November 1959.