Education
Harry Deeley was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Harry Deeley was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1913 he purchased the whole of the Duke of Bedford"s Covent Garden estate for £2m., having already been involved in the purchase of the Piccadilly Hotel and Saint James"s Court, Buckingham Gate. Fitzgerald had previously sold Mallaby-Deeley his reversionary rights to the estate for a notional consideration, not expecting, as a younger son, to inherit. In 1922 he assumed the additional name of Mallaby, his mother"s maiden name, by deed poll and was created a baronet (of Micham Court, Surrey).
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Deeley was elected Member of Parliament for Harrow in 1910 and for Willesden East in 1918, resigning in 1923.
