Comman[[der Harry Pursey MP (1891—13 December 1980) was a British politician and naval officer. 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

He was born in Sidmouth, and educated at the Royal Hospital School (a school for naval orphans) and the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. He joined the Royal Navy in 1907, as a boy seaman with HMS Impregnable. Location within the British Isles Sidmouth Arms of Sidmouth Town Council Sidmouth is a small town of 14,400 on the east Devon coast in south west England about 15 miles south east of Exeter. ... The Royal Hospital School is a co-educational independent boarding school which takes pupils from age 11 to 18 (years 7 to 13). ... Orphans, by Thomas Kennington An orphan (from the Greek ορφανός) is a person (or animal), who has lost one or both parents, often through death. ... The Old Royal Naval College The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, in the centre of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site in London. ... Ten ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Impregnable: Impregnable was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line launched in 1789 and wrecked in 1799 near Chichester. ...

During the First World War he served with the Dover Patrol and with the Grand Fleet; he took part in the Battle of Jutland aboard Revenge. In 1917 he was promoted to the rank of gunner and saw service in the Aegean aboard Forward; that October, he was second-in-command of a landing party from the Forward which successfully evacuated a Royal Naval Air Service station on Lesbos Island, for which he was commissioned and received a mention in despatches. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... During World War I, the British Home Fleet was renamed the Grand Fleet. ... Combatants United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland German Empire Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 armoured cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6... HMS Revenge was the name ship of the Revenge class of battleships of the Royal Navy, the ninth to bear the name. ... The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of World War I. When the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was founded on April 13, 1912 it was intended to encompass all military flying. ... Lesbos (Greek: Λέσβος - Lésvos, Turkish: Midilli; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea; its inhabitants are called Lesvioi. ...

After the war he was posted to the Black Sea and around Turkey, and saw action in Somaliland and Mesopotamia. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1920. In 1926 he was posted to Benbow. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander in February 1928,^[1] and transferred to Vernon in April.^[2] In May 1929 he was appointed to Eagle^[3] and in March 1931 to Hood.^[4] He retired in 1936. Motto: Justice, Peace, Freedom, Democracy and Success for All Anthem: dum ala khair, dum ala khair, Samo ku waar Samo ku waar Saamo ku waar Capital Hargeisa Largest city Hargeisa Official language(s) Arabic, Somali Government President Republic Dahir Riyale Kahin Independence  - Declared  - Recognition From Somalia  - May 18, 1991  - none... HMS Benbow was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named in honour of Admiral John Benbow and launched in 1913. ... HMS Eagle was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy sunk during World War II. The Eagle was laid down at the Armstrong yards at Newcastle-on-Tyne on February 20, 1913. ... HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy. ...

During the Spanish Civil War, he worked as a journalist in Spain. The Spanish Civil War (July 18, 1936–April 1, 1939) was a conflict in which the incumbent Second Spanish Republic and political left-wing groups fought against a right-wing nationalist insurrection led by General Francisco Franco, who eventually succeeded in ousting the Republican government and establishing a personal dictatorship. ...

He married in 1944, and was granted a decree nisi of divorce in 1956.^[5] He married again in September 1954, in New Jersey, to Baroness Huszar, a Hungarian. In 1954 his second wife was arrested in Montreal, for possessing counterfeit United States money, and acquitted after trial. He later won a lawsuit against her solicitor, who had argued that although he had conducted her defence without entering Canada, he was a licensed Canadian solicitor as well as an English one and thus not required to comply with English regulations.^[6] His wife was again, however, arrested in 1955, this time for the possession of narcotics; she was convicted, and they were divorced in 1959.^[7] A decree nisi (non-absolute ruling) is a ruling by a court that does not have any force until such time that a particular condition is met. ... City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area  - % water 366. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

He was elected as the Labour member of parliament for Kingston upon Hull East in the 1945 general election. In the 1955 election, he secured a majority of 12,700 votes.^[8] He announced in 1967 that he would resign at the next election, and was suceeded in 1970 by John Prescott. The Labour Party has since its formation in the early 20th century been the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... Hull East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Clement Attlee Winston Churchill The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 held on 5 July 1945 but not counted and declared until 26 July 1945 (due to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas) was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th... Rt. ...

He had a great interest in "below-decks" naval history, and spent his later years working on a history of the Invergordon Mutiny.^[9] His obituary in The Times described him as "the first naval officer promoted from the lower deck" to enter Parliament. The Invergordon Mutiny was an industrial action by around a thousand sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet, that took place 15-16 September 1931. ...

References

• Obituary in The Times, December 17, 1980.