Name Arthur Harvey, Role British Politician | Died April 5, 1994, Guernsey Party Conservative Party | |
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Air Commodore Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury, (31 January 1906 – 5 April 1994) was a senior Royal Air Force officer and a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 26 years.
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Early life and Second World War
Harvey was educated at Framlingham College, Suffolk and served with the Royal Air Force 1925–30 and during the Second World War. He was an advisor to the Southern Chinese Air Forces 1932–35 and a squadron leader in the Auxiliary Air Force in 1937. He founded the No. 615 (County of Surrey) Squadron and commanded it through the Battle of France. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1942. He later became a company chairman and director of several firms.
Member of Parliament
Harvey was elected as Member of Parliament for Macclesfield in 1945, and held the seat in seven further general elections. He was knighted in 1957. In the Commons, Harvey was chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee from 1966–1970. On 14 October 1969 he was made an Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Macclesfield.
Harvey resigned from the House of Commons in 1971, and was created a life peer as Baron Harvey of Prestbury, of Prestbury in the County Palatine of Chester on 1 May 1971. He was succeeded as MP by fellow-Conservative Nicholas Winterton.
Family and later life
He was married three times.
He died at St Martin's Port, Guernsey 5 April 1994.