Sir Harold Walter Seymour Howard, 1st Baronet (1886–1967) was an English stockbroker and Liberal politician who served as Lord Mayor of London.
[3] Ten months later, in December of that year, he became Sir Seymour Howard, 1st Baronet of Great Rissington.
[7] Chippenham was regarded by the Liberal party as a good prospect, given that their candidate in 1929 had come second, only 1,731 votes behind the winning Conservative.
[6] However, in the political climate of 1931, his Conservative opponent was seen as the most natural candidate in support of the newly formed National Government; In May 1938 Howard agreed to stand again for parliament at the 1938 Barnsley by-election as a Liberal candidate in support of the National Government.
Howard received Conservative support and might have hoped to re-gain the seat but was well beaten; During the Second World War, he worked at the Ministry of Aircraft Production.