Harold Smith

Sir Harold Smith (18 April 1876 – 10 September 1924) but at the December 1910 general election, Smith was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warrington in Lancashire. He was knighted in the 1921 New Year Honours.

At the 1922 general election, he did not stand again in Warrington, where he was succeeded as MP by another Conservative, Alec Cunningham-Reid who had been a flying ace in World War I. Smith stood instead in Liverpool Wavertree, a safe Conservative seat which returned him to the House of Commons with a large majority. his brother FE's wife, in London in September 1914. The couple had one child, Harold Anthony Warrington Smith, (known as Anthony), who later died at the age of 26 on 4 August 1944 when his jeep ran over a mine during the Battle of Florence. Harold Smith died of cancer on 10 April 1924, aged 48.