Henry Wilson Harris was editor of The Spectator

The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...

from 1932-53, and independent MP for Cambridge University

Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1945-50. He was in the last group of University MPs

University constituency

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; these seats were abolished in 1950.

As an educationalst, H. Wilson Harris was the narrator of Children at School (1937), a Basil Wright

Basil Wright

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 documentary, with an uncredited script by journalist (subsequently a Labour MP) Tom Driberg

Tom Driberg, Baron Bradwell

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. He also appeared in vision.

Before joining The Spectator Harris was a supporter of the League of Nations

League of Nations

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...

 in the UK, writing several pamphlets and books and editing the League of Nations Union

League of Nations Union

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's journal Headway.