Richard Harden (politician)

Major James Richard Edwards Harden OBE DSO MC (12 December 1916 – 22 October 2000), known as Richard Harden, was a Northern Irish politician. Born in Tandragee, County Armagh and educated at Bedford School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was an Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Armagh from a by-election in 1948 until he resigned his seat on 5 November 1954 by the procedural device of accepting the nominally-paid position of Steward of the Manor of Northstead.[1]

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  1. Department of Information Services (24 January 2017). "MPs appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds or Manor of Northstead stewardships since the 1945 Parliament". House of Commons Library.

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