Sir Henry Norman, Bt (September 19, 1858 –June 4, 1939) was an English politician and journalist. September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The English people are an indigenous European ethnic group originating in the lowlands of Great Britain and are drawn from a composite population descended from a combination of Romano-Celts and Angles, Saxons and Jutes. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ...

He was born at Leicester and studied theology and philosophy at Leipzig and Harvard University. He then became a journalist and travelled extensively in the East, where he took a number of photographs that are held at Cambridge University. He was on the staff of the Daily Chronicle from 1892, becoming assistant editor. Leicester (pronounced ) is a city in the English East Midlands, on the River Soar. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ... Leipzig ▶(?) [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... The Daily Chronicle was a London newspaper company founded in 1872 that merged its publication with the Daily News to become the News-Chronicle and the company then absorbed The Star which it retained as an evening publication. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Norman was a Member of Parliament between 1910 and 1923 as a Liberal. He was also a pioneer in wireless telegraphy. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as... Wireless telegraphy is the practice of remote writing (see telegraphy) without the wires normally involved in an electrical telegraph. ...

He was married twice: to Menie Muriel Dowie in 1891 (divorced 1903), and to Hon. Florence Priscilla McLaren in 1907. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1918, and gained the title of 1st Baronet Norman. A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...

Selected writings

• The Peoples and Politics of the Far East (1895)
• Round the Near East

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