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[[File:Sir_Harold_Derbyshire.jpg|right|thumb|Derbyshire in 1928, copyright/courtesy National Portrait Gallery]]<br />
'''Sir Harold Derbyshire''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MC|QC}} (25 December 1886 – 14 September 1972) was an [[English people|English]] barrister, judge and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] politician.<br />
==Background and education==<br />
Derbyshire was born in [[Cherry Tree, Lancashire|Cherry Tree]], [[Blackburn]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]], the son of James Derbyshire and Elizabeth Kate Chew. He was educated at [[Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn|Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School]], Blackburn, and then on a scholarship at [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]], where he studied [[Natural Sciences]]. He afterwards gained an [[LLB]]. In 1915 he married Dorothea Alice Taylor in Blackburn.<ref>The Liberal Year Book of 1929</ref><br />
==Legal career==<br />
Derbyshire was admitted to [[Gray's Inn]], where he was [[called to the Bar]] in 1911. He practised on the [[Northern Circuit]] and was made a [[King's Counsel|KC]] in 1928. He was elected a [[Bencher]] of Gray's Inn in 1931. From 1933-34 he served as [[Judge of Appeal]] in the [[Isle of Man]]. From 1934 to 1946 he was Chief Justice at the [[High Court of Calcutta]]. In 1948 he was the Inn's Treasurer. He retired from public life in 1950.<br />
==Military service==<br />
Derbyshire served with distinction during [[World War I]] in the [[Royal Artillery]] in France and Belgium, and was awarded the [[Military Cross|MC]] in the [[1918 Birthday Honours]].<br />
==Political service==<br />
In the [[1923 United Kingdom general election|1923 General Election]] he contested the seat of [[Clitheroe (UK Parliament constituency)|Clitheroe]] and in the [[1929 United Kingdom general election|1929 General Election]] that of [[Royton (UK Parliament constituency)|Royton]], standing for the Liberal Party, but was unsuccessful on both occasions.<br />
===Electora record===<br />
{{Election box begin |<br />
|title=[[1923 United Kingdom general election|General election 1923]]: Clitheroe <ref name="ReferenceA">British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig</ref> <br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Unionist Party (UK)<br />
|candidate = [[William Brass, 1st Baron Chattisham|William Brass]]<br />
|votes = 12,998<br />
|percentage = 42.9<br />
|change = −11.8<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Labour Party (UK)<br />
|candidate = [[Alfred Davies (Labour politician)|Alfred Davies]]<br />
|votes = 11,469<br />
|percentage = 37.9<br />
|change = −7.4<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Liberal Party (UK)<br />
|candidate = Harold Derbyshire<br />
|votes = 5,810<br />
|percentage = 19.2<br />
|change = n/a<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box majority|<br />
|votes = 1,529<br />
|percentage = 5.0<br />
|change = −4.4<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box turnout|<br />
|votes = 30,277<br />
|percentage = 88.2<br />
|change = +2.9<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box registered electors|<br />
|reg. electors = 34,329<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box hold with party link|<br />
|winner = Unionist Party (UK)<br />
|swing = −2.2<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box end}}<br />
{{Election box begin |<br />
|title=[[1929 United Kingdom general election|General election 1929]]: Royton<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Unionist Party (UK)<br />
|candidate = [[Arthur Vernon Davies]]<br />
|votes = 15,051<br />
|percentage = 38.4<br />
|change = &minus;5.6<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Liberal Party (UK)<br />
|candidate = Harold Derbyshire<br />
|votes = 13,347<br />
|percentage = 34.1<br />
|change = &minus;2.3<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box candidate with party link|<br />
|party = Labour Party (UK)<br />
|candidate = [[Albert E. Wood|Albert Ernest Wood]]<br />
|votes = 10,763<br />
|percentage = 27.5<br />
|change = +7.9<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box majority|<br />
|votes = 1,704<br />
|percentage = 4.3<br />
|change = &minus;3.3<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box turnout|<br />
|votes = 39,161<br />
|percentage = 82.9<br />
|change = &minus;3.4<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box registered electors|<br />
|reg. electors = 47,266<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box hold with party link|<br />
|winner = Unionist Party (UK)<br />
|swing = &minus;1.7<br />
}}<br />
{{Election box end}}<br />
==Sources==<br />
* ''[[Who Was Who]]'', vol. 7: 1971-80. A & C Black and [[Oxford University Press]]<br />
==References==<br />
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