Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank

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The Honourable Captain Henry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, CH PC (27 May 1893 - 17 October 1961), known as Harry Crookshank, was a British Conservative politician.

Crookshank was born in Cairo and educated at Eton College and Oxford University. In World War I he served in the Grenadier Guards and was badly wounded, leaving him unable to father children. He then worked in the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. until 1924.

Crookshank was Conservative MP for Gainsborough, 1924-56. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office, 1934-5; Parliamentary Secretary, Mines, 1935-9; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1939-43; Postmaster General, 1943-5; Minister of Health, 1951-2; Lord Privy Seal, 1952-5; Leader of the House of Commons, 1951-5. He was raised to the peerage as the Viscount Crookshank in 1956, a title which became extinct upon his death.

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