Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Crookshank CH PC |
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Harry Crookshank in 1932
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| Minister of Health | |
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In office 30 October 1951 – 7 May 1952 |
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| Monarch |
George VI Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden |
| Preceded by | Hilary Marquand |
| Succeeded by | Iain Macleod |
| Leader of the House of Commons | |
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In office 30 October 1951 – 20 December 1955 |
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| Monarch | George VI Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden |
| Preceded by | James Chuter Ede |
| Succeeded by | R. A. Butler |
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| Born | 27 May 1893 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died |
17 October 1961 (aged 68) Chelsea, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, CH, PC (27 May 1893 – 17 October 1961) was a British Conservative politician. He was Minister of Health between 1951 and 1952 and Leader of the House of Commons between 1951 and 1955.
Crookshank was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Harry Maule Crookshank and Emma, daughter of Major Samuel Comfort, of New York City. On his father's side, he descended from Alexander Crookshank, of County Longford, Ireland, who represented Belfast in the Irish House of Commons and served as a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. In the First World War, he joined the Hampshire Regiment and served as a captain in the Grenadier Guards. On one occasion he was buried alive by an explosion for twenty minutes, and on another in 1916 he was castrated by shrapnel, requiring him to wear a surgical truss for the rest of his life. He was awarded by Serbia the Order of the White Eagle and Gold Medal for Valour.
He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1919 and worked at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. until 1924.
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