Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) — The Rt Hon Frederick Leverton Harris Mp; Mp for Stepney. Issue 2148. (Rare Colour Half-Tone Gravure)

London: Vanity Fair, 1909. Original colour half-tone gravure. 38 x 26 cm (15 x 10 inches). Good. Some edge wear along right side and minor loss in top left corner, else image fine. Accompanied by 1 sheet of description, Good. Published in Vanity Fair, 30 Dec 1909. Hentschel-Colourtype, London (half-tone gravure). Rare. Frederick Leverton Harris (17 December 1864 - 14 November 1926)[1] was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for three periods between 1900 and 1918. His role in Parliament was largely insignificant until World War I, when he used his knowledge of shipping to play a crucial role in the United Kingdom's economic warfare against the German Empire, and joined the government in 1916 in a newly created post with specific responsibility for the blockade of Germany. As the war drew to a close, his political career looked set to flourish, but was destroyed by scandal. .