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Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, CH, PC (27 May 1893 – 17 October 1961), was a British Conservative politician. He was Minister of Health between 1951 and 1952 and Leader of the House of Commons between 1951 and 1955.
==Background and education==
Crookshank was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Harry Maule Crookshank and Emma, daughter of Major Samuel Comfort, of New York City. On his father's side he descended from Alexander Crookshank, of County Longford, Ireland, who represented Belfast in the Irish House of Commons and served as a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. In the First World War he joined the Hampshire Regiment and served as a Captain in the Grenadier Guards.〔(Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st and last Viscount Crookshank )〕 On one occasion he was buried alive by an explosion for twenty minutes, and on another in 1916 he was castrated by shrapnel, requiring him to wear a surgical truss for the rest of his life.〔Ball 2004, p. 41, 60〕 He was awarded by Serbia the Order of the White Eagle and Gold Medal for Valour.〔Article by Viscount Chandos.〕
He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1919 and worked at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. until 1924.
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