Norman Rae (20 January 1860 – 31 December 1928) was the Liberal Party MP for Shipley from 1918 to 1923, succeeding Oswald Partington and preceding William Mackinder.
Biography[]
Norman Rae was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in 1860, the son of a Congregationalist minister. He became a wool merchant before serving on the West Riding County Council from 1904 to 1913. He failed in his 1910 bid for Parliament in Ripon, but he was elected MP for Shipley in 1918 and followed David Lloyd George into his "national Liberal" camp in 1922. He was knighted in 1922 and stood down for re-election in 1923, and he died in 1928.