Henry Chancellor (politician)

Henry George Chancellor (3rd June 1863, died 1945) was the son of John & Louisa Chancellor, grocers, of Walton, nr Street in Somerset.

He attended Elmfield College and is shown in the 1881 census as a 17 year old Chemist's Apprentice living in Newent but then he moved to London in 1883 and married 1885.

In 1891 he is listed as "manager to blacklead merchant" whilst living at 55 Dresden Road, North Islington, with Mary Ann, their two eldest children (Hilda & Nora) plus his 19 yr old brother Harold C Chancellor, clerk to the said blacklead merchant. Harry became a partner in the family firm of C Chancellor & Co, paint manufacturers.

In a patent application in 1919 by a third party, Messrs C Chancellor & Co of Higham Hill Works, St Andrew Road, Walthamstow, are quoted as the suppliers of an aluminium powder the applicant used in the manufacture of reflective cinema screens. By 1901 the job description had changed to 'colour paint merchant' and he was noted to be an 'employer' rather than a 'worker'. At this time Harry, Polly and the five surviving children were living at No 2, Hornsey Rise in the Tollington Ward of Islington together with Polly's 41 year old sister Caroline Ann.

Henry Chancellor was elected in Jan 1910 as the 'Radical'/Liberal MP for Shoreditch (Haggerston), a position he held uninterrupted until 1928.