Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet

Henry Norman
Personal details
Born(1858-09-19)19 September 1858
Leicester
Died(1939-06-04)4 June 1939 (aged 80)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal Party
Spouse(s)Ménie Muriel Dowie
Florence Priscilla McLaren
ChildrenNigel Norman
Henry Norman

Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet PC JP (19 September 1858 – 4 June 1939) was an English journalist and Liberal Member of Parliament and government minister. Norman was educated privately in France and at Harvard University, where he obtained his B.A. For several years he worked on the editorial staff of the Pall Mall Gazette and later joined the editorial staff of the Daily Chronicle, being appointed Assistant Editor of the latter in 1895. He retired from journalism in 1899. During this time he travelled widely in Canada and the United States and in Russia, Japan, China, Siam, Malaya and Central Asia. Much of the material included in the two volumes mentioned in the description was amassed during these tours. He was knighted in 1906,[1] and made a baronet in 1915.[2]

  1. ^ The London Gazette, 28 December 1906 (issue 27980), pp. 9142–9145.
  2. ^ "Henry Norman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)