Thomas Edmund Harvey

Edmund Harvey
Edmund Harvey
Member of Parliament for West Leeds
In office 1910–1918
Preceded by	Herbert Gladstone
Succeeded by	John Murray
Majority	3,315
Member of Parliament for Dewsbury
In office 1923–1924
Preceded by	Ben Riley
Succeeded by	Ben Riley
Majority	2,256
Member of Parliament for Combined English Universities
In office 1937–1945
Preceded by	Sir Reginald Henry Craddock, Eleanor Rathbone
Succeeded by	Kenneth Martin Lindsay, Eleanor Rathbone
Majority	1,644
Personal details
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Thomas Edmund Harvey (4 January 1875 – 3 May 1955), generally known as 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.

Harvey was born in Leeds to a prominent Quaker family. He was the eldest son of William Harvey, a teacher and art collector, who made a substantial gift of paintings by Dutch and Flemish masters to the nation, as well as being a local politician, serving for 13 years on Leeds City Council. Ted Harvey was educated at Bootham School in York and attended Yorkshire College, Leeds and Christ Church, Oxford. He also studied at the University of Berlin and the Sorbonne in Paris, as well as at other institutions overseas. In 1900 he received his MA degree from Oxford University with First Class honours in Literae Humaniores. He later received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Leeds University. In 1911 he married Alice Irene Thompson, the daughter of the eminent physicist Professor Silvanus P. Thompson FRS.

His brother was the writer William Fryer Harvey, best known for his short story The Beast with Five Fingers that was turned into a film of the same name, starring Peter Lorre.

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