blue plaque · Leeds
Thomas Edmund Harvey

Thomas Edmund Harvey, 1875-1955, Leeds born and bred and a profoundly committed Quaker, he was a politician, social reformer, British Museum curator, Warden of Toynbee Hall and a Quaker historian. When Liberal MP for Leeds West (1910-18) he successfully campaigned for the rights of conscientious objectors during the First World War. Lived here 1923-1955
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