Edmund Harvey (social reformer)

Edmund Harvey
Member of Parliament
for Leeds West
In office
1910 – 25 November 1918
Preceded byHerbert Gladstone
Succeeded byJohn Murray
Member of Parliament
for Dewsbury
In office
6 December 1923 – 9 October 1924
Preceded byBen Riley
Succeeded byBen Riley
Member of Parliament
for Combined English Universities
In office
22 March 1937 – 15 June 1945
Preceded bySir Reginald Henry Craddock, Eleanor Rathbone
Succeeded byKenneth Martin Lindsay, Eleanor Rathbone
Personal details
Born
Thomas Edmund Harvey

(1875-01-04)4 January 1875
Leeds, England
Died3 May 1955(1955-05-03) (aged 80)
Political partyLiberal
Independent Progressive
Spouse
Alice Irene Thompson
(after 1911)
RelationsW. F. Harvey (brother)
EducationUniversity of Berlin
Sorbonne
Alma materYorkshire College, Leeds
Christ Church, Oxford

Thomas Edmund Harvey (4 January 1875 – 3 May 1955), generally known as Ted or Edmund Harvey, was an English museum curator, social reformer and politician. He sat in Parliament, first as a Liberal and later as an Independent Progressive. He was also a prolific writer on Christianity and the role and history of the Society of Friends.