Harry Cunningham Brodie
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Harry Cunningham Brodie (18 January 1875 – 27 February 1956) was a Canadian-British Liberal Party politician and businessman.
He was born in Victoria, British Columbia,[1] the eldest son of John Brodie, of Hamsell Manor, Sussex. He was educated at Winchester School. He married in 1909, Mabel Hart, a daughter of Sir Robert Hart. They had two sons. His wife died in 1951.[2]
He was a member of the Liberal Eighty Club. Standing for the first time, he was elected Liberal MP for the Reigate Division of Surrey, at the 1906 General Election, gaining the seat from the Conservatives. He served just one parliamentary term, losing the seat back to the Conservatives at the General Election of January 1910. He did not stand for parliament again.[3]
Military career
He was a Major in the Middlesex Yeomanry (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars). During World War I, he served in Egypt in 1915–16 and France in 1917.[2]
