Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, Baron Harvington, Personal Computer was a British Conservative Party politician.
Career
He served as Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker from 1970 to 1974. He changed his name from Ferris to Grant-Ferris by Deed poll in August 1942. He was knighted in 1969, and sworn to the Privy Council in 1971.
On 24 June 1974 he was given a life peerage as Baron Harvington, of Nantwich in the County of Cheshire.
Membership
37th United Kingdom Parliament. 41st United Kingdom Parliament. 42nd United Kingdom Parliament.
43rd United Kingdom Parliament.
44th United Kingdom Parliament. 45th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Street Pancras North from 1937 to 1945, and for Nantwich from 1955 until his retirement at the February 1974 general election.
Ferris" maiden speech to Parliament was in March 1937, in a debate on the Air Ministry estimates, in which he spoke as a member of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.