Background
HARRIS, THOMAS was born on May 14, 1923 in Lincoln, Illinois.
HARRIS, THOMAS was born on May 14, 1923 in Lincoln, Illinois.
Northwestern University (Juris Doctor, 1948). Phi Delta Phi.
He served in the Second World War as a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. In 1945 he was elected a Scottish Representative Peer, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord President of the Council (Lord Woolton and Lord Salisbury respectively) from 1951 to 1953 and to the Minister of Materials (Lord Woolton) between 1953 and 1954. In 1954 he was made a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords), a post he held until 1957.
He died in April 1964, aged only 40, and was succeeded by his eight-year-old son Nicholas. His widow Lady Fairfax of Cameron was appointed Temporary Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II in 1967.
Logan County, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. American Judicature Society.
